World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon has once less problem to deal with, as the family of Nancy Toffoloni Daus Sullivan Benoit has filed a lawsuit against Dr Phil Astin, but not against WWE.

 

The Toffoloni Family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Newnan, Georgia, over the June 2007 double-murder suicide perpetrated by Chris Benoit, who killed himself after killing wife Nancy and their

seven year old son Daniel.

 

The lawsuit also lists three co-defendants, who are referred to as "Distributor X," "Distributor Y," and "Distributor Z." According to the complainants, the identities of these defendants are currently unknown to them, except to the extent that they are "for profit entities doing business in the State of Georgia" and are "manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and/or retail sellers of certain anabolic androgenic steroids, narcotic drugs, and/or controlled substances."

 

Both individually and on behalf of Nancy and Daniel's estates, Maureen and Paul Toffoloni seek a jury trial and recovery of damages for "the full value of the lives of each decedent"; "final expenses, including funeral expenses"; and "compensatory damages for the fear, shock, mental and emotional trauma, and extreme pain and suffering endured by Nancy E. Benoit and Daniel Benoit prior to their deaths." The plaintiffs also ask for punitive damages flowing from the defendants' "willful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, oppression, [with an assumption of] conscious indifference to consequences."