I can see it as akin to medical malpractice.
Salazar brought this upon himself when he told Mary Cain and her parents that she was the most gifted runner he's ever seen. This made them think he saw something special in her, that he really saw her. But instead of nurturing her talent and seeing her for the beautiful labradoodle she is, he tried to turn her into some kind of whippet or French poodle and she instead of getting faster, ended up gettin RED-s with the multiple injuries and bone density problems that beset her to this day.
If Nike had had a REAL nutritionist or an athlete advocate, someone might have stepped in and said, No, she needs to get her period. This is no good. But they had a system where it was all Alberto, all the time. And that could be seen as negligence.
Even in recent podcasts, Mary's voice shakes when she talks about this time. It doesn't shake when she speaks of other topics. I feel like if you saw a thoroughbred gnawing at its own leg, you might wonder if it had been abused at some point. But because she's a girl, we just say it was her fault and she and her parents should've known better. But I bet part of the lawsuit covers that Salazar presented himself to them as the EXPERT. But he was really wrong.
She was probably trying her best to get over this. She's always talking about coming back gently from this issue or that injury and being patient, and then she spent one too many time in an MRI. Or she watched the documentary on Nike where Malcolm Gladwell blamed her parents AND SHE LOST IT.