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MN Court Affirms Exclusive Remedy in Korey Stringer Suit

09/22/2004
family attorney stated that the time had come for the NFL and its product manufacturers as well as the Vikings to recognize and address the serious health threat presented by heat-related illness. As a result the Stringer family has also brought an action in federal court in Ohio pursuing relief

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Judge In NFL Painkiller Suit: Misrepresentation Claim Not Enough To Sidestep Exclusive Remedy

07/31/2017
A federal judge in California who threw out a lawsuit by ex- NFL players alleging league-wide overuse of painkillers said the players would have had to prove that the league intentionally concealed knowledge of their injuries to escape the workers' compensation law's exclusive remedy provision

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Federal Judge Says Ex-Falcons Can't Bring Comp Claims in Calif.

11/20/2012
pursuant to the terms of a collective-bargaining agreement between the players' union and the league. During the arbitration proceeding the NFL and the Falcons argued that the contracts they had with the players specifically restricted the players to bringing their claims in Georgia and that the

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NFL's Brad Culpepper Charged with Fraud for Cumulative Injury Claim

09/17/2014
law firm in Tampa Florida appeared in the 2013 season of Survivor a CBS competitive reality show. He is a lead plaintiff in the concussion-injury class-action lawsuit against the NFL which the parties agreed to settle for 775 million. However a group of seven players is challenging the proposed

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Football Teams' Arbitration Arguments Arrive at the WCAB

04/07/2010
National Football League NFL players against their former teams and involve the collective bargaining agreements in both leagues. The AFL case Brache v. Tampa Bay Storm is pending at the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board's reconsideration unit. In that case an AFL arbitrator originally ruled

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Bill Backed by NFL Seeks to Reduce Players' Wage Calculations

05/12/2014
-Hammond sponsored the bill along with Rep. Cameron Henry R-Metairie. The Louisiana bill is far less sweeping than measures passed in California and Arizona to limit the ability of NFL players to file claims in those states but shares the same goal of shaving potential costs. If players' wages only at

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NFL , Players Reach Settlement on Comp Claims

07/09/2013
. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu on Monday signed an order saying that attorneys for the players and the NFL held a telephonic settlement conference after which a confidential agreement was placed on the record. Ryus order says any transcript from the settlement conference must remain under seal

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NCAA Concussion Suits Get Consolidated in Federal Court in Chicago

12/24/2013
from them about the risks of the long-term effects of concussion injuries. Their claims echo the accusations that several thousand former athletes levied against the National Football League in another massive class action which became known as MDL Docket Item No. 2323. Claims against the NFL

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Companies Sued Over Alleged Scam of 9/11 Responders, NFL Players

02/10/2017
The New York Attorney Generals Office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have filed a lawsuit against a company that allegedly scammed 9

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Judge Dismisses NFL Painkiller Lawsuit Claims On Exclusive Remedy Grounds

07/25/2017
A federal judge has dismissed on exclusive remedy grounds the remaining claims in a lawsuit accusing the National Football League of excessively disp

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