Brazilian org Imperial ordered to pay $74k over death of CSGO player bruttJ ImperialA labor judge in Brazil has ordered esports organization Imperial to pay damages of 400,000 Brazilian reais, or $74,000, to the family of Matheus \u2018bruttJ\u2019 Queiroz, a CS:GO player who died in 2019. bruttJ, 19, passed away in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro on December 15, 2019, due to an unspecified central nervous system infection. A week earlier, he had left Imperial\u2019s gaming house, located in S\u00e3o Paulo, after complaining of headaches, returning to Rio de Janeiro to recover near his family. Brazilian labor judge Patricia Almeida Ramos determined that, by failing to fulfill its legal and contractual obligations regarding health, Imperial had \u201cindirectly contributed\u201d to bruttJ\u2019s death. Ramos argued that Imperial failed to create a \u201chealthy, safe and comfortable\u201d work environment and did not provide \u201cany sort of assistance\u201d to bruttJ when his health began to deteriorate. During his brief stay in Imperial\u2019s gaming house, bruttJ was admitted to hospitals on several occasions, where doctors could not diagnose the illness. According to the labor judge, from the moment bruttJ joined Imperial and started living in their gaming house, his health became \u201ca legal and contractual obligation\u201d for the company as there was no separation between his professional activities and his personal life. \u201cThe structure of the gaming house left a lot to be desired, to the point that the athlete could not eat healthily or sleep properly,\u201d Ramos wrote in the ruling. \u201cIt is obvious that, in this situation, he could not improve physically, which became visible to everyone who was in contact with him, because of the three or four trips to public hospitals in a very short space of time. \u201cAll this happened without the participation of Imperial, despite its legal and contractual obligations. Its responsibility, including for what happened, is unquestionable.\u201d bruttJ\u2019s family had sued the player\u2019s former teams, Reapers and Imperial, for negligence, saying that the two organizations should be held responsible for the health of their athletes. In Monday\u2019s ruling, the judge stressed that it is not possible to determine that bruttJ would be alive if Imperial had fulfilled its obligations. \u201cBut at the same time, it is not possible to say otherwise,\u201d Ramos stated. \u201cBy choosing not to comply with the specific legislation, nor with the terms of the employment contract kept with Mr. Matheus, Imperial assumed the risk of being held responsible in case of eventual damage suffered by the athlete, regardless of having caused it,\u201d the judge added. Imperial to lodge appeal In a statement, Jos\u00e9 Augusto Rodrigues Jr., the attorney who represented Imperial in this case, said that the organization will appeal against the ruling. According to him, Imperial fulfilled all its obligations and \u201cprovided assistance, including to the family\u201d. \u201cThe player provided services for approximately 40 days only, and it would not even be reasonable for the company to have been the cause of his illness and death,\u201d he wrote. Founded in 2018 by former CS:GO player Felippe \u2018felippe1\u2019 Martins, Imperial made headlines in February 2022 with the signing of Last Dance, a Brazilian CS:GO lineup featuring a trio of two-time Major champions in Gabriel \u2018FalleN\u2019 Toledo, Fernando \u2018fer\u2019 Alvarenga and Lincoln \u2018fnx\u2019 Lau. The team, which has an average age of 28.6 years, went on to qualify for PGL Major Antwerp, where it placed 9th-11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brazilian org Imperial ordered to pay $74k over death of CSGO player bruttJ ImperialA labor judge in Brazil has ordered esports organization Imperial to pay damages of 400,000 Brazilian reais, or $74,000, to the family of Matheus \u2018bruttJ\u2019 Queiroz, a CS:GO player who died in 2019. bruttJ, 19, passed away in a hospital in Rio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}