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| Report: Moore's lawyer deemed settlement offer 'insulting':
Lawyers for Todd Bertuzzi offered $350,000 last year to settle the $15 million lawsuit brought by Steve Moore, the former Colorado Avalanche player whose career was halted by Bertuzzi's on-ice attack in 2004, according to a report in the Toronto Star. The report cites court documents, in which Moore's attorney, in a letter to Bertuzzi's attorney, said a December 2006 meeting between both sides arranged by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly was "a complete waste of time" and that the settlement offer "was calculated to be an insult and was an insult." The letter, dated March 29, 2007, is labeled "strictly personal and confidential" but was filed as a public record as part of a motion filed in Ontario Superior Court by Orca Bay, the Vancouver company that owns the Canucks, according to the report. "In the context of everyone meeting in good faith, I entered the boardroom and extended my hand to everyone there," Moore's lawyer, Tim Danson, wrote to Bertuzzi's lawyer, Geoffrey Adair, according to the Star. "Your client refused to shake my hand and effectively turned his back on me ... I was shocked by such disrespect. I then turned to everyone and said with enormous disappointment, 'What's this -- what a great way to start the meeting.' I was met with complete silence." "To then receive a joint offer from Mr. Bertuzzi and Orca Bay in New York for $350,000 was quite a shock and certainly sent out all the wrong messages," Danson wrote. Danson also wrote that in July of last year, Adair made an informal offer to settle the case for $1 million -- an offer Moore's side declined, but took as a good-faith starting point, "albeit exceptionally low," according to the report. |
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