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Could Long-Retired NFL PLayers Collect Comp for Dementia?

04/16/2010
sport has on their diagnosed dementia.  While I will not assume I have knowledge of California law I would like to explore the possibilities of this occurring in the state of Florida.Considering Florida has three NFL teams one as old as 1966 there is a significant pool of potential

Category: Industry Insights

A Link between NFL Head Injuries and Lou Gehrig's Disease?

09/13/2010
their diagnosed dementia. Since then the NFL has issued warnings to its current players  about the long term effects of concussions and the symptoms that occur with head injuries.  They should be applauded for the move but is it enoughNow HBO–the cable network–just

Category: Industry Insights

3rd Circuit Hears Challenge to Proposed Settlement in NFL Concussion Litigation

09/10/2014
August the parties announced that they had reached a settlement under which the NFL would pay 765 million to resolve the dispute. Any of the league's approximately 18000 former players would have been eligible for an award under the settlement but the size of that award would depend upon the

Category: News

NFL Players Seek Workers' Compensation Benefits for CTE

11/23/2016
it can. The suit asks the NFL and the workers' compensation agencies in each state with a football team to officially acknowledge this research and make benefits available to living players diagnosed with CTE. "The view was it's not verifiable by science unless you're dead and now it is" said

Category: News

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Review of Challenge to NFL Concussion Settlement

12/13/2016
gridiron. In Armstrong v. NFL and Gilchrist v. NFL former players took issue with the terms of the 1 billion settlement that U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody approved last April. The settlement provides players with medical examinations and monetary awards for those diagnosed with brain injuries

Category: News

NFL Team Cannot Compel Arbitration of Discrimination Claims

02/27/2013
League spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday. The NFL asserted this position in the amicus briefs it filed in the Missouri cases which were Sniezek v. Kansas City Chiefs No. WD75206 and Clemmons v. Kansas City Chiefs No. WD75329. The NFL has also sought to compel arbitration of the consolidated

Category: News

Athlete's Acceptance of Job during Phone Call Amounted to Contract for Hire

09/17/2014
Royster didn't actually sign a contract until after he had arrived for training camp in Georgia and that the document allegedly contained a clause that designated Georgia as the exclusive forum in which Royster could file a comp claim against NFL Europe. California law applied to Royster because he

Category: News

Deion Sanders Has Filed Comp Claim

09/09/2013
The Los Angeles Times reports that Deion Sanders a former National Football League player who is now a commentator for the NFL Network filed a workers compensation claim in California in 2010. The Times pointed out that earlier this year Sanders questioned the class-action concussion lawsuits

Category: News

Retired Players File Suit Alleging NFL Illegally Gave them Drugs

05/21/2014
all of our nine named plaintiffs and over 400 retained clients were shocked by their introduction to the NFL drug culture" the law firm says on its website. "Nothing in high school or college prepared them for the widespread availability of painkillers and anti-inflammatories in the NFL. They had

Category: News

Douglas, Rome

11/01/2012
MANAGEMENT; THE ST. LOUIS RAMS; TRAVELERS INDEMNITY CO. successor in interest to GULF INSURANCE CO. Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Defendant TIG Insurance Company identifies NFL Europe as World League of American Football

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