The company is preparing to go to trial over a lawsuit that stemmed from a WWE employee’s mistake on the road.
PW Insider reports that WWE is set to go to trial on February 27th before the Florida Middle District Court. This lawsuit was filed by Jackson Parsons, who was the victim of that 2019 traffic accident.
Jackson Parsons filed this lawsuit in June 2021. The lawsuit alleges that on July 22nd, 2019, a car driven by company employee, Gaitan Thomas, who was on the clock with WWE at the time, hit Parsons while he was riding his bike.
In December 2020, Parson demanded a settlement from WWE of $1,064,328.38. Obviously, that didn’t happen, and then the lawsuit was filed later in 2021. WWE has a lot of issues outside the squared circle right now. Only time will tell if they will be able to make this problem go away, but this is just one of the many reasons why WWE keeps a team of lawyers on retainer.
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