Hoy’s tragic plummet was caused by the window frame dislodging, even though the glass itself was still intact.
The tragedy occurred during a new student welcome event hosted in a tiny conference room adjacent to a boardroom.
His untimely death stunned the legal world and played a part in the firm’s final dissolution three years later, which was the biggest failure of a law firm in Canadian history.
Hoy’s death was classified as a misadventure by the police and coroner, which is a term frequently used to describe unintentional deaths.
A Darwin Award, which is granted to people whose acts cause unintentional self-removal from the gene pool, was posthumously bestowed to Hoy.
