Hockey equipment maker Bauer Hockey LLC will defend in federal court a player’s claims it manufactured and sold a helmet with an ear cover that could “act as a guillotine” to cause severe lacerations when hit with a puck.
Stephen Conklin alleges he was wearing a Bauer Re-Akt hockey helmet during practice in April 2015 at a skating rink in Long Beach, N.Y., when he was struck in the helmet with a hockey puck.
The impact caused the helmet’s clear plastic ear cover to “severely lacerate” Conklin’s ear, requiring reconstruction surgery, according to the complaint filed in a New York ...
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