PARK CITY, Utah (KUTV) — Gwyneth Paltrow is standing trial on Tuesday for an incident at a Utah ski resort that prompted a skier's lawsuit.
The trial is happening in Third District Court in Park City at 9 a.m. and is expected to last about a week.
The $3.9 million hit-and-run lawsuit was filed in 2019 by a Utah man who claimed he sustained a brain injury, in addition to multiple broken bones, after Paltrow crashed into him on the Deer Valley Resort slopes in 2016. The suit states he suffered "pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress and disfigurement.”
Attorney Robert Sykes, who is representing retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, said in a 2019 interview that Paltrow was skiing out of control and "accepted no responsibility" as she left the scene of the crash.
Sanderson's original lawsuit listed Paltrow, ski instructor Eric Christiansen, Deer Valley Resort Company LLC, and two other Deer Valley employees who were unnamed. The complaint alleged the ski instructor berated the injured Sanderson for "taking out Gwyneth Paltrow" and accused the man of filing a false report and failing to provide aid.
Paltrow in a public statement denied the allegations against her in the lawsuit "completely without merit," and filed a countersuit that claimed it was she who was struck by Sanderson, not the other way around. The lawsuit sought $1, plus court and attorney fees from Sanderson.
Her attorneys alleged Paltrow suffered a "full-body blow" from Sanderson, leaving her shaken and lead to her and her family quitting skiing for the day.
The ski instructor, who worked for Deer Valley Resort at the time, asked a Utah judge to remove him from the lawsuit, saying the legal challenges should be between Sanderson and Paltrow. His request was originally denied, though he was eventually taken off the suit.
In May 2020, a judge ruled that the crash was not a hit-and-run case and dismissed multiple charges from the lawsuit, which whittled damages from $3.9 million to $300,000.
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