The parents and widow of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs filed lawsuits against his former team and two ex-employees on Tuesday, claiming negligence, gross negligence and wrongful death, their attorneys announced.
The defendants in the complaints include Angels ownership and former Angels communications employees Tim Mead and Eric Kay.
Skaggs died in a Texas hotel room in July 2019. A medical examiner later determined his cause of death to be a mixture of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone that led to a "terminal aspiration of gastric contents."
Skaggs was allegedly supplied fatal drugs by Angels employee
Kay has since been indicted for supplying Skaggs with the opioids that led to his death, with counts of conspiracy to possess with intention to distribute a controlled substance, and distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and serious bodily injury.