Mavar couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. It also alleges that the delayed care caused the rupture, leading to infections, surgeries and cancer treatment that “would not have occurred had the appendix been removed prior to rupture.” The lack of a plan for outside medical care led to the “failure to assure plaintiff was promptly taken to the Dutch Harbor medical clinic for an examination and assessment of plaintiff’s medical condition,” the original complaint claims. His complaint claims that a “delay in competent and adequate examination, testing, and diagnosis” led to a ruptured appendix as well as the discovery of a cancerous tumor. Mavar was working on the Northwestern at the height of the pandemic in late December 2020 and January 2021, they say. F/V Northwestern LLC is licensed in Alaska.īoth lawsuits cite the “failure to have an adequate plan in place” to get outside medical help during a time when COVID-19 protocols were in place to protect cast members from infection. The suit references a separate complaint Mavar filed in December in Washington’s King County Superior Court seeking more than $1 million in damages from the Northwestern’s owners, listed by Washington state records as Sig Hansen, the boat’s captain, and his wife, June. District Court in Alaska by attorneys for the F/V Northwestern, centers on 58-year-old former deckhand Nick Mavar Jr., a longtime cast member of the show that debuted in 2005 on the Discovery Channel.
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The owners of a fishing vessel featured in “ Deadliest Catch” are suing the reality TV show’s production company and a contractor after a former crew member blamed a lack of prompt care during the pandemic for leaving him with serious medical problems. The owners of the vessel featured on Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" are suing a California production company and contractor over accusations they mishandled a crew member's medical care. Sig Hansen poses for a portrait with his boat the Northwestern docked at Ballard in Seattle, Washington, March 3, 2010.
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