WWE Reportedly Settles Fan Lawsuit Over Hearing Damage From 2022 Taping

WWE appears to have settled the lawsuit brought against it by a fan over hearing damage sustained at a 2022 Smackdown taping. As previously reported Richard Bryant sued WWE in May alleging that he suffered injuries from a July 2022 taping in Orlando, Florida. PWInsider reports that according to The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, there is a planned settlement in place for the lawsuit.

Details on the settlement are not currently known, and the report does not reveal when the settlement may be approved.

Bryant was seeking $15,000 in damages and accused WWE of negligence and carelessness, claiming that they did not “adequately warn of the dangers of pyrotechnics, failed to test the effect of pyrotechnics on the premises, failed to operate the pyrotechnics with reasonable care, failed to hire, select, train and supervise reasonably competent employees, failed to implement and enforce reasonable policies and procedures for the safe use of pyrotechnics, failed to use ordinary care in the administration of pyrotechnics, failed to warn Plaintiff of the potential effects of use of pyrotechnics, any and all other acts determined to be negligent or grossly by the tier of fact.”

Bryant also claimed that some of his injuries, which include include “traumatic rupture of his right ear drum, bilateral tinnitus, hearing loss in his right ear, psychological harm,” may be permanent and has had medical expenses for treatment, with more such expenses likely.