‘Deadliest Catch’ Star Captain Sig Hansen Sues Production Company
Captain Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern is suing the Deadliest Catch series’ production company. Why would Hansen, the crown star of this Discovery series sue?
Here is the latest news.
Captain Sig Hansen Sues Deadliest Catch Production Company
Why is the F/V Northwestern captain, Sig Hansen suing the production company behind the Deadliest Catch? On Monday, Anchorage Daily News reported that Captain Sig is suing “over his former deckhand’s medical care.”
The paper reports that the former deckhand, Nick Mavar Jr., was not given “prompt care” during the worldwide pandemic.
According to the civil lawsuit that Sig’s lawyers filed on Friday, this suit is in regard to the 58-year-old former deckhand of the famed crab ship. Fans of the Discovery series will certainly know who he is. Since 2005, the former F/V Northwestern deckhand has been on television screens catching crab for the famed boat. He is Jake Anderson’s uncle.
This suit refers to a December personal injury lawsuit that Mavar’s attorneys filed in Washington’s King County Superior Court back in December 2022. In that lawsuit, both Sig Hansen and his wife, June are being sued as owners of the F/V Northwestern. The crab ship owners are being sued for $1 million.
Both lawsuits have to do with the timeframe of December 2020-January 2021, during the “height of the pandemic.” Also, both lawsuits include “failure to have an adequate plan in place” during this time of Covid-19 protocols. These protocols were required to keep the cast safe during this pandemic.
Suit Claims That There Was No Plan In Place
In essence, this suit is against the production company, as well as the F/V Northwestern has to do with having no medical plan in place during the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic.
Firstly, Mavar’s suit includes the wording that there was a “delay in a competent and adequate examination, testing, and diagnosis.” This “led to a ruptured appendix as well as the discovery of a cancerous tumor.”
Also, the original claim states that had the former deckhand received the proper medical care beforehand, his appendix would not have ruptured, and he would have not suffered from a serious infection. The original claim points out that there was no plan in place, therefore, it led to a “failure to assure plaintiff was promptly taken to the Dutch Harbor medical clinic for an examination and assessment of plaintiff’s medical condition.”
Lastly, the original suit against the owners of the famed boat cites that had there been a plan in place, there would not have been surgeries required to deal with the reputed appendix. This led to the cancerous tumor being found. If the cancerous tumor was found before it ruptured, Nick Mavar would not have had so many serious complications.
Sig’s Lawsuit Claims Deadliest Catch Production Company Was At Fault
Although the original lawsuit blamed the Hansens, as owners of the crab boat, they claim this was the fault of the production company, Original Productions Inc, a Burbank-based company.
Sig’s lawsuit claims that this California-based production company created the protocols, but failed to implement them.
Furthermore, there was a Tennessee-based subcontractor who was hired to carry out the protocols. Trifecta Solutions LLC supplied medics who were on the boat.
One of the trained professionals did examine Nick “multiple times,” according to the lawsuit.
Currently, none of the people in the lawsuits were available for comment or offered a comment to the Alaskan paper.
Deadliest Catch fans, what do you think of this lawsuit?
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