Maybe. Different states, different law firms, different rules for each state.
I think the players play hard and should be taken care of after their career has ended. The rules need to be changed to protect the players and the equipment needs to get better. Football is played on many age levels, our kids should be safe as well.
PATIENT: Doctor, doctor, it hurts and causes me damage to my jello-like brain every time I run 20+ miles per hour into a brick wall. Can you help me?
DOCTOR: You idiot, stop running into brick walls!!!
DUH…The only way to absolutely prevent brain deterioration and other medical damage to the human brain or body in football, and even deaths from football injuries in both children and adults, is to stop playing full-contact tackle football. For kids under 18, anyone that cares about kids’ still-developing brains, and has common sense, would change to flag football but the almighty dollar profits of NFL, college, and high-school violence promoting tackle football would disappear. They will continue to endanger and exploit children for the $millions and $billions it brings in as profit each year which is indistinguishable from throwing a rooster into a cock fight or a dog into a dog fight to win a few dollars on a bet who dies first. Football moms need to take action, NOW!
Do doctors and nurses who smoke outside hospitals on their breaks have common sense or should they be considered role models?
There is no football helmet or other equipment that can prevent CTE producing symptomatic concussions or a-symptomatic sub-concussions, as Dr. Bennett, the world’s most recognized expert on CTE confirms and as the U.S. Congress is considering a law to penalize football helmet and equipment manufacturers who falsely advertise and claim that their product can prevent or reduce concussions. When the human head is suddenly stopped from 20 mph to 0 mph during a tackle, the brain keeps moving until it slams into the front of the skull and the back of the skull.
WOW just wow. “Ex-Players Drop Case to Force NFL to Pay Workers’ Compensation for Concussions”
Misleading title to say the least! It’s an absolute wrong title for this article. Way to go Andrew.
You wrote the article so you know they aren’t dropping the case and walking away as this title would want you to believe, in fact they are aggressively filing lawsuits on a state by state basis which gives them more ammo for victory.
Mr. Simpson did a great job at explaining the legal strategy of the attorneys to select the best legal forum, individuals workers compensation administrative claims hearings, to initially create an evidence-laden administrative record preserving the evidence for further federal appeal in the federal courts if necessary. It forces the NFL to prove in the administrative process that brain deterioration and damage in living players is not due to CTE and allows the attorneys to prove that overwhelming medical evidence from intense research studies, and overwhelming statistics that football causes CTE related illnesses, destruction of the quality of life and family and social relationships and early death, domestic and other violence and including death by suicide. I’ve done legal research specializing in civil rights and the lawyers made the right, and only, move that will lead to compensation for still living NFL players who are suffering from CTE related damage.
The lawyers should love this. Separate fee/settlement for each suit. What a gold mine!
Maybe. Different states, different law firms, different rules for each state.
I think the players play hard and should be taken care of after their career has ended. The rules need to be changed to protect the players and the equipment needs to get better. Football is played on many age levels, our kids should be safe as well.
PATIENT: Doctor, doctor, it hurts and causes me damage to my jello-like brain every time I run 20+ miles per hour into a brick wall. Can you help me?
DOCTOR: You idiot, stop running into brick walls!!!
DUH…The only way to absolutely prevent brain deterioration and other medical damage to the human brain or body in football, and even deaths from football injuries in both children and adults, is to stop playing full-contact tackle football. For kids under 18, anyone that cares about kids’ still-developing brains, and has common sense, would change to flag football but the almighty dollar profits of NFL, college, and high-school violence promoting tackle football would disappear. They will continue to endanger and exploit children for the $millions and $billions it brings in as profit each year which is indistinguishable from throwing a rooster into a cock fight or a dog into a dog fight to win a few dollars on a bet who dies first. Football moms need to take action, NOW!
Do doctors and nurses who smoke outside hospitals on their breaks have common sense or should they be considered role models?
There is no football helmet or other equipment that can prevent CTE producing symptomatic concussions or a-symptomatic sub-concussions, as Dr. Bennett, the world’s most recognized expert on CTE confirms and as the U.S. Congress is considering a law to penalize football helmet and equipment manufacturers who falsely advertise and claim that their product can prevent or reduce concussions. When the human head is suddenly stopped from 20 mph to 0 mph during a tackle, the brain keeps moving until it slams into the front of the skull and the back of the skull.
WOW just wow. “Ex-Players Drop Case to Force NFL to Pay Workers’ Compensation for Concussions”
Misleading title to say the least! It’s an absolute wrong title for this article. Way to go Andrew.
You wrote the article so you know they aren’t dropping the case and walking away as this title would want you to believe, in fact they are aggressively filing lawsuits on a state by state basis which gives them more ammo for victory.
Mr. Simpson did a great job at explaining the legal strategy of the attorneys to select the best legal forum, individuals workers compensation administrative claims hearings, to initially create an evidence-laden administrative record preserving the evidence for further federal appeal in the federal courts if necessary. It forces the NFL to prove in the administrative process that brain deterioration and damage in living players is not due to CTE and allows the attorneys to prove that overwhelming medical evidence from intense research studies, and overwhelming statistics that football causes CTE related illnesses, destruction of the quality of life and family and social relationships and early death, domestic and other violence and including death by suicide. I’ve done legal research specializing in civil rights and the lawyers made the right, and only, move that will lead to compensation for still living NFL players who are suffering from CTE related damage.