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Family whose 10-year-old son was killed when a soccer goal tipped over on him has settled its case against various defendants
According to published reports, a family whose 10-year-old son was killed when a soccer goal tipped over on him has settled its case against various defendants.On May 7, 2007 Hayden Ellias was killed during a soccer scrimmage at Millbrook High School in Winchester Virginia. ArIn 1995 Consumer Products Safety commission had published guidelines for soccer goals, determining that the goals were dangerous and should be properly secured with anchors or sandbags and should be designed to includecounter-weighting into the actual design of the goal itself.
Numerous defendants were named in the suit which was filed in Prince William County Circuit Court. The defendants included the United States soccer Federation, the United States Youth Virgin Federation, the Virginia Youth Soccer Association and the Old Dominion Soccer League, among others. Many of the defendants claimed immunity from suit under the doctrine of the charitable immunity. The immunity issue was not on the court at the time the case was settled. The case settled for $1,005,000. Published reports did not disclose which defendants paid which amount and some defendants may have paid nothing.
Hayden's family has set up a charity, Hayden's Goal, in an attempt to educate others about the dangers of portable soccer goals.
The case was handled by attorneys Paul Thomson, Greg Webb and Shawn Kasserman.
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