Fan from 2018 Valspar Sues Tiger & Caddy Joe LaCava

Tiger Woods is, unfortunately, no stranger to frivolous lawsuits. Sadly, when your net worth hovers around $1 billion, it’s no surprise that people and their ambulance chasing lawyers come up with crazy, questionable claims in an effort to extort money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The most recent debatable use of Tiger’s lawyer’s time comes in the form of a lawsuit from a fan who attended the 2018 Valspar Championship.

The lawsuit, filed April 7, 2020, names Woods and his caddie, Joe LaCava, as defendants and alleges that plaintiff Brian Borruso suffered injuries when LaCava “intentionally shoved” Borruso during the third round at Innisbrook that “caus[ed] him to stumble and fall into the crowd of spectators”.

This, however, is in contradiction with a statement from one of the tournament’s security officials, who communicated to authorities that he saw LaCava “use his forearm to guide”, not shove or push, a man back into the crowd so Woods would have enough space to play the shot.

While a cursory review of the selfie image certainly raises questions about whether Borruso failed to observe LaCava’s repeated warnings that he was “crowding” Woods and, in all likelihood, impairing his ability to play, Borruso’s lawyer is claiming that the lawsuit took two years to file to better understand the injuries—which are not specified but, instead, vaguely described as “bodily and and mental” in the complaint— his client may have suffered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s worth noting that the Valspar was Woods’s fourth appearance after the spinal fusion surgery he underwent the previous April. As a result, it’s entirely reasonable to assume that Woods had an unusual larger than normally overwhelming crowd following him during the event and, as a result, it’s plausible that Borruso simply got caught up and tripped among a concert-like crowd, entirely absent any fault of LaCava.

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