Jan 26
Ex-NFL Player Lawsuits Hit Miami Court
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Dozens of lawsuits from former NFL players were on full display in a federal court in Miami Thursday. The lawyers for the league are asking for the cases, which dealt with negligence and other charges, to be combined into one case.
The claims from former players center on whether the NFL knew of potential long-term health risks of repeated head trauma, but just recently started trying to deal with it on the field.
The players claim that repeated concussions and other head trauma leads to long-term problems including depression, migraine headaches, memory loss, and serious diseases like Lou Gehrig’s disease and others.
Just last year, former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson committed suicide in his Sunny Isles Beach condo. In his suicide note, he asked for his brain to be given to the NFL’s brain bank for analysis.
Brain researchers said Duerson suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a degenerative disease of the brain caused by repeated head trauma, according to CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald.
If the league is successful in creating one case for all the players, the list of former players in the suit would be a who’s who of former stars.
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Article source: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/01/26/ex-nfl-player-lawsuits-hit-miami-court/
