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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ex- NFL Players File Civil Suit against Kansas City Chiefs
12/05/2013
settlement of 765 million.
But Dirk Vandever of The Popham Law Firm in Kansas City one of the attorneys representing the five former Chiefs players explained Wednesday that Cooper v. Kansas City Chiefs Football Club will involve different legal issues than the massive class action against the NFL
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Players' New Suit Focuses on Toradol's Impact on Concussions
12/08/2011
National Football League over the use of the drug Toradol contending that the league ignored the drug's blood-thinning side effects which enhanced their concussions and other injuries.
Attorneys filed a complaint in the case of Finn v. NFL at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey on Monday making it
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Ex-Football Star Neil Smith Sues the NFL for Brain Injuries
01/02/2013
symptoms Mr. Smith was regularly returned to play significantly increasing his chances of long-term brain damage."
Smith also complained that the NFL failed to warn him about the risk of long-term brain injury and cited a number of symptoms.
"As a result Plaintiff Smith suffers permanent and
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