Original source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tim-hague-death-lawsuit-1.7570608

Local snapshot (archived 2026-07-03): full-page PDF committed at sources/foip/_archive/tim-hague-wrongful-death-settlement/tim-hague-wrongful-death-settlement.pdf.

Tim Hague v. City of Edmonton & Edmonton Combative Sports Commission (SETTLED)¶

One of the few EPS/City-adjacent cases where an actual settled PAYOUT is on the public record. Not an EPS-officer case, but names the City of Edmonton (self-insured) and its combative sports commission — useful as a calibration point for claim-vs-payout ratios.

Facts and figures (verbatim from CBC, retrieved 2026-07-03)¶

2017: pro fighter/boxer Tim Hague died after a fatal Edmonton bout.
2019: family filed a $5.3-million wrongful-death lawsuit alleging gross negligence, naming 11 parties including the City of Edmonton and its combative sports commission.
The suit was quietly settled and formally dismissed in Court of King's Bench in September 2023.
Court records: the Hague estate was awarded just over $116,000. After legal fees, surviving parents and his only child were left with just shy of $65,000.
$20,000 to Hague's parents
~$44,000 placed in trust for his son (age 8 at time of death)
Family said they settled partly over concern about financial strain if they lost at trial.

Why this matters to the settlements picture¶

Dramatic illustration of the claim-vs-realized-payout gap: a $5.3M CLAIM resolved for a gross award of ~$116K (~2% of the claimed figure). This is the standard caution when reading the Project Fisk / Pacey Dumas CLAIM amounts ($1.5M-$5M) — realized settlements are typically a small fraction of the amount sued for.

Confidence¶

HIGH — CBC reporting from court records, figures quoted verbatim.