Angels settle wrongful death lawsuit with family of Tyler Skaggs, who died from fentanyl-laced pills

The Los Angeles Angels and the household of Tyler Skaggs reached a colony successful the family’s wrongful decease suit against the team.

Skaggs died successful 2019 aft taking fentanyl-laced oxycodone supplied by the team's erstwhile communications director, Eric Kay, mixed with alcohol. Kay is serving 22 years successful prison.

The presumption of the colony person not been disclosed. Skaggs’ household was primitively seeking $118 cardinal for Skaggs’ mislaid earnings, compensation for symptom and suffering and punitive damages against the team.

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Tyler Skaggs of the Los Angeles Angels pitches during the archetypal inning of a crippled against the Oakland Athletics astatine Angel Stadium of Anaheim June 6, 2019, successful Anaheim, Calif. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

The Angels argued that Skaggs, contempt being fixed the pill by Kay, took the drugs successful his backstage clip connected his ain accord and that the squad is not liable for his death.

According to ESPN, jurors had been connected a 3rd time of deliberations, and determination had been speculation a determination would person gone the family's way.

Skaggs was 27 erstwhile helium was recovered successful a edifice country successful Southlake, Texas, earlier the Angels were to play the Texas Rangers. A coroner's study indicated helium choked connected his ain vomit aft taking the toxic mix.

"We are profoundly grateful to the members of this assemblage and to our ineligible team. Their engagement and absorption gave america faith, and present we person finality," the household said successful a release. "This proceedings exposed the truth, and we anticipation Major League Baseball volition present bash its portion successful holding the Angels accountable. While thing tin bring Tyler back, we volition proceed to grant his memory."

Former New York Mets ace Matt Harvey admitted during Kay's proceedings that helium had supplied drugs to Skaggs. The 2 were teammates with the Angels successful the twelvemonth of Skaggs' death. Harvey, C.J. Cron, Mike Morin and Cam Bedrosian besides said successful tribunal that they had been provided drugs by Kay. Morin argued successful the lawsuit that Skaggs was liable for his ain actions.

Carli Skaggs, the woman of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, with Tyler's mom, Debbie Hetman, successful the dugout earlier a crippled against the Seattle Mariners July 12, 2019, successful Anaheim, Calif. (John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Mike Trout testified that players would wage Kay for bizarre stunts, leaving Trout to rise an eyebrow. At 1 point, a clubhouse attendant suggested the players should stop, Trout said, due to the fact that Kay mightiness beryllium utilizing the wealth for a "bad purpose," which Trout said helium instantly assumed was drugs. The three-time MVP said helium had lone seen Skaggs fume marijuana and portion alcohol, ne'er reasoning helium was utilizing different drugs.

Last month, Skaggs' widow, Carli, and mother, Debbie Hetman, besides testified. Carli Skaggs said she knew Skaggs battled a erstwhile addiction to Percocet earlier they dated but did not cognize helium was inactive utilizing drugs astatine the clip of his death.

Skaggs had developed his Percocet addiction during his clip with the Arizona Diamondbacks successful the aboriginal 2010s, which Carli had not recovered retired astir until astir a twelvemonth aft they began dating. Carli admitted her hubby took an ecstasy pill connected their honeymoon, and they smoked marijuana unneurotic but stopped erstwhile they wanted to commencement a family.

An lawyer representing the Skaggs household asked Carli if she was "able to deliberation of immoderate occasion" successful which she could person realized Skaggs was using.

"No. And I person racked my encephalon for thing I could person missed," she replied, via The Orange County Register.

The Los Angeles Angels basal for a infinitesimal of soundlessness earlier they play the Seattle Mariners astatine Angel Stadium of Anaheim July 12, 2019, successful Anaheim, Calif. The full Angels squad wore No. 45 connected their jerseys to grant Skaggs, who died connected July 1, 2019. (John McCoy/Getty Images)

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Hetman testified that the Angels ne'er asked her astir her son's erstwhile addiction and would person told the squad had she been asked. She besides said she asked Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the doc who performed his Tommy John country successful 2014, to prescribe a antithetic painkiller due to the fact that of his anterior addiction.

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