Professional hockey player suffers a career-ending lower back injury, returns to Canada

… A 23-year-old professional hockey player suffered a career-ending lower back injury.  The hockey team denied any knowledge of his injury, however.  A worker’s compensation claim was filed.  The hockey player’s personnel file was subpoenaed from the team for a records deposition.  The file was hand-delivered by the team’s vice president/general counsel rather than an office clerk, which was very unusual for this type of deposition.  The general counsel admitted in the deposition that he and the team were aware of this injury.  At the end of the cased, the worker’s compensation judge awarded benefits for the hockey player’s on-going wage loss.  The hockey player returned to his native Canada where he got a job with a youth organization.