Steve Montador Estate vs NHL

The lawsuit filed with United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division alleges the NHL failed to warn Montador “of the reality that repetitive head trauma in the NHL can cause long term cognitive and mental health impairments” all while the league collected data on such trauma. The suit also alleged the failure to warn Montador was intended to “‘conceal critical information’ from NHL players in order to continue profiting from promoting an ‘extreme culture of violence.'”

The suit alleges Montador sustained thousands of hits to his head during a 13-year NHL career, including 15 documented concussions with at least four of them coming within three months in 2012 while the defenseman was playing for the Blackhawks.