Death to Google Ads! Texans Talk Tip Jar! 🍺😎👍
Thanks for your support!

NFL reaches concussion settlement with

Section516

Section516

Warrior
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000235494/article/settlement-reached-in-nfl-concussion-lawsuit



A settlement has been reached between the NFL and a group of former players who sued because they believed the league didn't do enough to inform and protect them from head injuries, NFL.com's Albert Breer reported Thursday, citing a league source.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court, included about 5,000 litigants.

Edwerderespn Ed Werder
RT @SportsCenter: THIS JUST IN: NFL and players reach proposed $765 million settlement of concussion-related lawsuits


RT @adbrandt: Here is the order from Judge Brody: http://t.co/qPQJKwwEtV
 
Last edited:
eriadoc said:
Well, that's a wrap, fellas. It may take 20 years, but we're headed toward flag football.
Click to expand...

At least until another league pops up to serve a market created by the increasingly over-regulated NFL. :thinking:

The new league will probably have their lawyers draw up contracts for players to knowingly accept responsibility and accountability for their decision to play a violent sport.
 
2012Champs said:
90k each if the attorney's get 40%
Click to expand...

This is being settled as a class action. The attorneys fees are separate and will be determined on a Lodestar basis (total fees calculated on an hourly basis times a multiplier determined by the court) rather than a percentage.
 
eriadoc said:
Well, that's a wrap, fellas. It may take 20 years, but we're headed toward flag football.
Click to expand...
With more and more revenue coming from TV and less from Gate receipts, why don't they just play & telecast the games from international locations and thereby avoid the legal liabilty of domestic locations ?
And regarding the settlement, isn't that a much smaller number and much quicker resolution than most expected ?
 
IDEXAN said:
With more and more revenue coming from TV and less from Gate receipts, why don't they just play & telecast the games from international locations and thereby avoid the legal liabilty of domestic locations ?
And regarding the settlement, isn't that a much smaller number and much quicker resolution than most expected ?
Click to expand...
yes to the bolded
 
infantrycak said:
This is being settled as a class action. The attorneys fees are separate and will be determined on a Lodestar basis (total fees calculated on an hourly basis times a multiplier determined by the court) rather than a percentage.
Click to expand...

Interesting I didnt know that
 
Double Barrel said:
At least until another league pops up to serve a market created by the increasingly over-regulated NFL. :thinking:

The new league will probably have their lawyers draw up contracts for players to knowingly accept responsibility and accountability for their decision to play a violent sport.[/QUOTE]
Click to expand...

And that would be the smart thing for the NFL to do !!!!
Click to expand...
 
EllisUnit said:
And that would be the smart thing for the NFL to do !!!!
Click to expand...

HJam72 said:
And they will as soon as some upstart tries to beat them out that way. In the meantime, they'll slowly become flag football.
Click to expand...

Didn't XFL already try to do this? Things have changed since then in the direction of taking even more hard hits out of football, but I don't think we're anywhere near a tipping point for a startup to start stealing fans away or being anywhere near capable of paying competitive wages to its players.
 
I'm sorry but if a new league started up tomorrow where they allowed a safety to lay out a WR coming over the middle, or for a DE to know the crap out of a running QB i would no longer watch the NFL. Even though itd be hard to leave my texans behind i'd still make the switch
 
EllisUnit said:
I'm sorry but if a new league started up tomorrow where they allowed a safety to lay out a WR coming over the middle, or for a DE to know the crap out of a running QB i would no longer watch the NFL. Even though itd be hard to leave my texans behind i'd still make the switch
Click to expand...


It would be hard at this point for another league to overtake the nfl, simply changing what hits are allowed wouldn't be enough imo
 
EllisUnit said:
I'm sorry but if a new league started up tomorrow where they allowed a safety to lay out a WR coming over the middle, or for a DE to know the crap out of a running QB i would no longer watch the NFL. Even though itd be hard to leave my texans behind i'd still make the switch
Click to expand...

So your not a fan of old time football?

You know the kind of football that allowed the NFL to become what it's become today?

I pay homage to the pre God'ell NFL. The Bradshaw/Staubach/Campbell/Brazille days. You're probably to young to remember those days and have been conditioned to buy into the crap God'ell is currently hocking as NFL football.
 
steelbtexan said:
So your not a fan of old time football?

You know the kind of football that allowed the NFL to become what it's become today?

I pay homage to the pre God'ell NFL. The Bradshaw/Staubach/Campbell/Brazille days. You're probably to young to remember those days and have been conditioned to buy into the crap God'ell is currently hocking as NFL football.
Click to expand...

i'm really confused, i just said if old time football came back i would not watch this crap anymore :kitten: or am i missing something, maybe you should re read what you quoted.
 
Wolf said:
Radio just said Dan Marino. Joined in a lawsuit if I heard correctly.
Click to expand...

yep. Read that today, as well:

Dan Marino joins concussion lawsuit against the NFL

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino is among the latest group of NFL players to file a concussion-related lawsuit against the NFL.

Marino and 14 other former NFL players filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Pennsylvania May 28, joining more than 4,500 others who had previously accused the NFL of misleading players about the long-term dangers of concussions.

The NFL and the plaintiffs agreed on a $765 million settlement last August, but the settlement was rejected by a federal judge in January.

The suit filed by Marino and others is similar in nature to hundreds of earlier lawsuits, and accuses the NFL of "carelessness, negligence, intentional misconduct" regarding concussions, according to the documents filed last week and obtained by USA TODAY Sports.

---------------------

Marino, 52, retired in 1999 after playing 17 seasons for the Miami Dolphins. He did not have significant history of documented concussions, but dealt with a neck injury late in his career. He missed 11 games in 1993 after suffering a torn Achilles' tendon.

Full article
Click to expand...

Interesting to note that Marino just joined, AFTER losing his broadcast job with CBS a couple of months ago.
 
Dan Marino to withdraw concussion lawsuit against NFL

Dan Marino plans to withdraw from a lawsuit over concussions that was filed against the NFL.

“It was never Marino’s intention to initiate litigation in this case, but to ensure that in the event he had adverse health consequences down the road, he would be covered with health benefits,” a source told Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “They are working to correct the error.”

Source
Click to expand...

According to the article, this could be the result of unexpected backlash.
 
Frank Wycheck: Concussion deal no cause for rejoicing
Frank Wycheck, 42, estimated he had 15 to 25 concussions over 11 seasons as a tight end. He has migraines, memory loss and depression.

He noted the monetary awards will be dictated by age at the time of diagnosis.

“Let’s keep the window dressing off of it as far as having a parade and a standing ovation for it,” Wycheck said. “I know how bad I have been suffering, and I am not eligible to receive a dime. … I find it hard to believe there will be a lot of guys eligible for it because there’s not a lot of guys worse than me.”
Click to expand...
 
The NFL has witnessed a 36 percent drop in concussions over a three-year span, it announced today.

Data provided by the league ahead of Sunday's 2015 Super Bowl showed there were 111 concussions during last year's season, down from 148 in 2013 and 173 in 2012.
Click to expand...

Link

Saw in another report that ACLs were down 20%+ (to 57 iirc) while MCLs were not.

Overall in the supposedly wussified NFL:

According to STATS, there were 265 players placed on injured reserve during the regular season in 2014, a 17per cent jump from the 226 the year before.
Click to expand...
 
I will tell you that this year we had somewhere close to a 63 percent decrease in fines to players for hits on defenseless players from 2013 to 2014. That’s a really substantial drop. It shows that players are conforming to the rules and I think part of it is they’re growing up with rules that change the way they play the game.
Click to expand...

Link
 
This happened during the silicone breast implant lawsuits (and I'm sure in other major medically-oriented lawsuits). It is sad to say that there are always a small number of attorney-bought doctors that are an embarrassment to my profession.

Doctor-shopping could be affecting concussion settlement
May 7, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
AP

As the NFL’s payout in the concussion settlement approaches $500 million, nearly 10 percent of that amount may have been paid based on recommendations from doctors who are a little too loose with the medical findings that support compensation.

Via the Associated Press, the NFL has requested the adoption of a 150-mile limit to the distance from a player’s home to the location of his doctor, in order to prevent doctor-shopping and fraud.

“We didn’t notice it until the claims were coming in,” fund administrator Orran Brown said in court regarding four doctors who were dismissed from the program due to “high-volume” player traffic and questionable findings. “$46 million went out the door on these claims before we could flag it.”

The presiding judge seemed to agree that some sort of limit is justified.

“A few were brought to my attention where we had a lawyer from Pennsylvania and a player from Florida going to a doctor in Texas, and that was a red flag,” Judge Anita Brody said.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top