June 11, 2018
NFL Concussion Settlement Issues Appealed to Third Circuit
“Though it is not perfect, it is fair,” was the opinion handed down from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2016, when the appellate court ruled in favor of the Settlement designated to compensate retired NFLers for brain injury that was approved by Judge Brody in almost a year earlier in 2015. While a group of players appealed the Third Circuit’s decision to the Supreme Court, in December 2016 the High Court declined to hear the case, finalizing the Settlement with player registrations beginning in January 2017 and claims submissions in March of that year. A year and a half into settlement implementation the Settlement has been plagued with problems and controversies, not the least of which are low dementia claim approvals, and NFL allegations of widespread fraud for which it seeks a special investigator. Attorneys for the players dispute the pervasive fraud alleged by the NFL, a problem largely of their own making, but these are not the only areas where controversy exists. Like a boomerang, two of these controversies have made their way back to the Third Circuit… Read More about “NFL Concussion Settlement Issues Appealed to Third Circuit”…
June 9, 2018
Phil Colwell: A profile of one CFL player’s battle with brain injury
On the windswept, rainy, Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, former CFL fullback Phil Colwell is taking life such as it is one day at a time.
Colwell only played in the CFL for two seasons in the early 80s, yet he believes the major health issues he is now suffering through are directly attributable to his time in the league with concussion injury being his main complaint, along with back, hip and neck issues. Read More about “Phil Colwell: A profile of one CFL player’s battle with brain injury”…
June 5, 2018
NFL asks the Concussion Settlement Court for a fraud investigator with authority of subpoenas and compelled testimony
Last Wednesday the NFL presented arguments urging Judge Brody to appoint a special fraud investigator in the troubled Concussion Settlement, in which as of May 29, only eleven dementia claims have been paid. Read More about “NFL asks the Concussion Settlement Court for a fraud investigator with authority of subpoenas and compelled testimony”…
The CFL’s Canary in a Coal Mine
Over the past decade or so, evidence that something was wrong with former NFL players’ brains has grown exponentially. The living, and even the dead told tales that the NFL did not want to hear.
During that time Boston University CTE researchers established a brain bank to “better understand the long term effects of repetitive head trauma” on football players and at that time, the CFL took notice, seeing it as the first, dangerous, shot across the bow for their league. Read More about “The CFL’s Canary in a Coal Mine”…
May 23, 2018
HBO Real Sports Pulls Back Curtain on NFL’s Claims of Fraud in the Concussion Settlement
Who’s defrauding whom? The NFL has decried massive fraud in the much-heralded uncapped settlement purposed to compensate retired NFL players for brain injuries but far from living up to its promise, HBO reports in a May 22 segment, “only ten percent of players who’ve filed claims for payment have received any money. That includes only one percent of all claims for dementia. One percent.” Read More about “HBO Real Sports Pulls Back Curtain on NFL’s Claims of Fraud in the Concussion Settlement”…
