Wrestling Brain-Injury Appeal Thrown Out as Untimely
Former wrestlers blaming the WWE for concussion-related ailments are too late to mount a class action, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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Appeal Over Brain-Injured Wrestlers Stumbles in 2nd Circuit
Hoping to keep concussion-related claims from former wrestlers pinned down, a lawyer for the WWE told the Second Circuit on Friday that the decades-old claims are hopelessly out of date.
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A former high school football player sued the Cache County (Utah) School District for negligence, claiming that after he took a helmet-to-helmet hit while playing for Ridgeline High School, and he told his coach he thought he’d suffered a concussion, the coach told him to “man up … quit being a pussy (and) get back out there,” in Cache County Court.
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The SEC claims in federal court that Cambridge Capital Group Advisors fka Cambridge Capital Advisors, Phillip Timothy Howard and Don Warner Reinhard raised most of $4.1 million from brain-damaged former NFL players, through knowing or reckless misrepresentations, and misappropriated $973,000 of it “to pay themselves fees and to cover costs associated with Howard’s personal residential mortgages.”
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Partly reversing and remanding and partly affirming, the Third Circuit ruled that lenders may advance immediate payments to retired NFL players who do not want to wait for their share of billion-dollar concussion settlements, but lenders may not collect from the claims administrator, only directly from the players.
Read moreLenders Who Bought Into NFL Concussion Settlement Score Reversal
In a reversal where the court itself noted the potential for exploitation by usurious lenders, the Third Circuit ruled Friday that NFL players were entitled to trade their shares of a $1 billion concussion settlement for a quick cash payout.
Read moreLab Develops Safety Ratings for Youth Football Helmets
Perhaps Steve Rowson was destined to publish a study contrasting and comparing the safety features of youth football helmets. After all, he is a professor of biomechanics at Virginia Tech University whose entire career has focused on ways to reduce serious head injuries to athletes competing in various contact or high-speed sports.
Read moreCanadian Hockey League Faces Class Action From Former Players
A proposed class action on behalf of current and former amateur hockey players in the Canadian Hockey League who didn’t go on to professional careers accuses the league of failing to warn young, vulnerable players of the long-term risks of repetitive brain trauma suffered on the ice.
Read more9th Circuit Rules in Favor of Concussion-Prone Athletes
In an opinion that could reverberate well beyond USA Water Polo, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the governing body for water polo in the U.S. should have done more to protect young athletes from concussions.
Read moreWWE Knocks Out Consolidated Concussion Case
Just as World Wrestling Entertainment overwhelmed rivals like ECW and the AWA, Vince McMahon’s pro wrestling empire triumphed this week in a series of concussion-related lawsuits filed by former wrestlers.
Read moreSoccer Head Shots Linked to Balance Problems
With finalists for the 2018 World Cup ready to face off this weekend, a new study released Wednesday sheds light on the cumulative impacts “heading” the soccer ball has on the neurological functions of players.
Read moreJudge Considering Fraud Investigator in NFL Concussion Case
A federal judge in Philadelphia heard arguments Wednesday in the NFL’s request for a special investigator to look into what the league says are fraudulent claims in a $1 billion concussion settlement.
Read moreFederal Judge Clears WWE in Concussion Lawsuit
World Wrestling Entertainment won a federal lawsuit filed by two wrestlers who claimed they were not warned about the dangers of concussions, after a judge found the company did not hide what it knew about head trauma.
Read moreWoodpeckers’ Skulls Don’t Prevent Brain Damage, Study Finds
A new study suggests that modeling sports helmets after the skulls of woodpeckers may not be the whole answer to protecting athletes’ brains from injury.
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Link of Brain Injuries to Head Hits in Football Nearly Overwhelming
Seven-eighths of the brains of 202 former football players showed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported Tuesday.
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A federal class action transferred to Illinois is led by a former Big 12 NCAA athlete who suffered numerous concussions while playing football at University of Texas in the late ’90s.
Read morePassenger Dragged Off Plane Will Sue United
An attorney and family member of the doctor dragged off a United Airlines flight Sunday spoke out for the first time Thursday at a press conference in Chicago, saying he suffered a concussion and plans to sue over the incident that went viral.
Read moreEx-Soccer Player Says Lawyers Botch Injury Claim
A former DC United defenseman claims two attorneys from prominent personal injury law firms mishandled the discovery process in his suit seeking damages for the team’s poor treatment of a career-ending concussion he suffered during a game.
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