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Trial Underway over Angels' Alleged Role in Baseball Pitcher Tyler Skaggs' Overdose Death
The Skaggs family seeks at least $210 million, alleging the Angels' negligence enabled access to fentanyl-laced pills leading to the pitcher’s fatal overdose.
- On Monday, jury selection began in Orange County Superior Court in the wrongful-death lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles Angels of responsibility for Tyler Skaggs' death.
- Family attorneys say Eric Kay supplied counterfeit oxycodone laced with fentanyl, and an autopsy found Skaggs died of asphyxia after fentanyl, oxycodone, and alcohol; the family alleges the Angels allowed Kay access despite his drug supply to players.
- Pretrial discovery includes more than 50 depositions and nearly 80 witnesses, with former players testifying Kay distributed oxycodone and the Skaggs family planning to call Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Andrew Heaney.
- The trial is expected to last several weeks as Carli Skaggs, Debra Hetman and Darrell Skaggs seek at least $210 million, while an Angels lawyer said plaintiffs now seek $1 billion.
- Skaggs' death prompted Major League Baseball to begin opioid and cocaine testing in 2020, and MLB now mandates naloxone be stored at all ballparks amid fentanyl-related deaths.
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Trial underway over Angels' alleged role in baseball pitcher Tyler Skaggs' overdose death
The Los Angeles Angels are facing a court trial over whether the team is responsible for the drug overdose death of one of its star pitchers.
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