Hockey star Matt Moulson’s camp has dropped the gloves on a Connecticut lawyer who made “outlandish and defamatory'” comments about the Islanders’ wingman in a dispute over car insurance coverage.
“This is a celebrity shakedown,'” Moulson’s lawyer, Stephan Seeger, blasted yesterday.
Seeger’s remarks were directed at Mark Arons, a Wesport lawyer who last week told reporters he had filed suit Moulson for negligence on behalf of a woman involved in a 2010 car crash with the stickhandler.
Noting that Moulson carried only the minimum required liability insurance — $25,000 — Arons derided the player as “either clueless or cheap” and said treatment of his client’s alleged injuries required “substantially'” more than that.
Arons sent out press releases and copies of the purported lawsuit, claiming it had been filed — but, as of late Monday, no record of it existed in Danbury Superior Court.
Seeger — who characterized Moulson’s car accident as “a fender bender” — said the athlete hasn’t been served with any suit, but may soon serve up papers of his own against Arons.
“Calling somebody out in public with outlandish remarks about a phantom lawsuit that has not been served, let alone filed, gives you an idea about what kind of case we’re dealing with here,”‘ Seeger said.