RUGBY League World Cup officials are being warned about potentially being sued following Australia’s 42-8 demolition of Fiji over the weekend.
Australia captain James Tedesco made contact with a TV camera after trying to stop a Fiji try, but NRL chiefs have called into question the safety regulations at the tournament with the camera placing close to the dead-ball line.
Wests Tigers chairman and compensation lawyer Lee Hagipantelis believes that World Cup chiefs could be hit with lawsuits if a player is seriously injured due to a collision with an off-field object.
“The proximity of the players and the playing of the game to the surrounds is of a kind that it would have to be foreseeable a player could slide into a fence or a cameraman and suffer serious injury,” Hagipantelis told Radio SEN.
“I think they are running a…
