This site is the cat's meow when it comes to Football related concussions and the legal fall-out when players try to be compensated for pain and suffering and long-term disability, etc.
Link: http://nflconcussionlitigation.com/
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Providing up-to-date coverage and legal analysis of the lawsuits filed by former NFL players against the NFL regarding its alleged concealment of the risks associated with concussions.
Paul D. Anderson is a third-year law student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is focusing on Sports Law, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law, and Business Litigation.
He will spend his final semester of law school interning at the Department of Labor, and devote the remainder of his time covering the NFL concussion litigation. Paul will be studying for the Bar this summer and (tentatively) plans to work at a firm in Kansas City and develop a niche Complex Sports Litigation Practice.
Paul shares a passion for sports and the law. Primarily baseball, but since Major League Baseball is on the path of enjoying more than twenty years of labor peace and has fortunately, for the most part, remained out of the courtroom, Paul turned his attention to the current litigation battle heating up in football regarding concussions.
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It was a late Sunday night in 2008 when friends found Curtis Whitley lying face down in a trailer, dead at the age of 39. Whitley lived a well-depicted life of a bad boy: snorting crystal meth, driving erratically high on drugs and alcohol, and breaking NFL’s policies like a bat out of hell.
He played six years in the NFL and was suspended twice due to violations of the NFL’s drug and alcohol policies.
According to the most recent wrongful death lawsuit filed by Whitley’s family, the NFL was responsible for Whitley’s demise by “conceal[ing] important medical information….” According to the lawsuit, Whitley suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
Although an autopsy report determined that Whitley’s cause of death was due to a drug overdose, during the latter part of his life he did suffer from symptoms directly related to severe cognitive decline, including paranoia, suicidal thoughts and extreme depression, according to the complaint.
The family is represented by Stuart Fraenkel and Nicole Andersen of Kreindler & Kriendler LLP. Andersen stated that the law firm plans on filing additional lawsuits in the coming weeks.
Case Caption: Alfred Camarena on behalf of the Estate of Curtis Whitley v. NFL – filed in California Superior Court, Alameda County on March 21, 2012.
He played six years in the NFL and was suspended twice due to violations of the NFL’s drug and alcohol policies.
Was it the drugs and alcohol or something else that led to Whitley’s premature death?
According to the most recent wrongful death lawsuit filed by Whitley’s family, the NFL was responsible for Whitley’s demise by “conceal[ing] important medical information….” According to the lawsuit, Whitley suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
Whitley’s brain was one of the several brains of former NFL players examined by Drs. Bennett Omalu and Julian Bailes that was found to show signs of CTE.
Although an autopsy report determined that Whitley’s cause of death was due to a drug overdose, during the latter part of his life he did suffer from symptoms directly related to severe cognitive decline, including paranoia, suicidal thoughts and extreme depression, according to the complaint.
This is the fifth wrongful death lawsuit filed against the NFL and the 51st concussion-related lawsuit.
The complaint alleges similar facts as the other lawsuits, and asserts six counts: negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, actual fraud, wrongful death, and survival and pain and suffering.The family is represented by Stuart Fraenkel and Nicole Andersen of Kreindler & Kriendler LLP. Andersen stated that the law firm plans on filing additional lawsuits in the coming weeks.
Case Caption: Alfred Camarena on behalf of the Estate of Curtis Whitley v. NFL – filed in California Superior Court, Alameda County on March 21, 2012.
