>NCAA Concussions
Date Filed: September 28, 2011
Court: Northern District
Location: Illinois
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association alleging the governing body neglects to protect student-athletes from concussions and their aftermath.
The lawsuit was filed on Sept. 28, 2011, on behalf of two former college football players who claim that college football has resulted in repeated head trauma, including concussions. The complaint says the NCAA turns a blind eye to coaches who teach players to use their heads for tackling, fails to establish a NCAA-wide system for screening head injuries and shirks its financial obligations to injured student-athletes who need medical treatment after they’ve left college.
The NCAA, whose member institutions number nearly every major college or university in the country, generates $750 million each year, but has failed to enforce the safety measures it introduced in the 1970s, the lawsuit alleges.
According to the case, a mounting body of scientific evidence has linked concussions to depression, dementia and early-onset Alzheimer’s, among a host of other medical problems.
The lawsuit seeks to represent current or former NCAA football players, who have medical or team records indicating they sustained a concussion(s) or suffered concussion-like symptoms while playing football at an NCAA school, and who have, since ending their NCAA careers, developed chronic headaches, dizziness, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or other physical and mental problems as a result of the concussion and have incurred medical expenses from such injuries.
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Court: Northern District
Location: Illinois
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association alleging the governing body neglects to protect student-athletes from concussions and their aftermath.
The lawsuit was filed on Sept. 28, 2011, on behalf of two former college football players who claim that college football has resulted in repeated head trauma, including concussions. The complaint says the NCAA turns a blind eye to coaches who teach players to use their heads for tackling, fails to establish a NCAA-wide system for screening head injuries and shirks its financial obligations to injured student-athletes who need medical treatment after they’ve left college.
The NCAA, whose member institutions number nearly every major college or university in the country, generates $750 million each year, but has failed to enforce the safety measures it introduced in the 1970s, the lawsuit alleges.
According to the case, a mounting body of scientific evidence has linked concussions to depression, dementia and early-onset Alzheimer’s, among a host of other medical problems.
The lawsuit seeks to represent current or former NCAA football players, who have medical or team records indicating they sustained a concussion(s) or suffered concussion-like symptoms while playing football at an NCAA school, and who have, since ending their NCAA careers, developed chronic headaches, dizziness, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or other physical and mental problems as a result of the concussion and have incurred medical expenses from such injuries.
If you have information you believe is important to the case, contact the firm by clicking here.
Key Attorneys
Steve W. Berman
Mr. Berman co-founded the firm in 1993, and is the managing partner. He is considered one of the most succe... link >>
Mr. Berman co-founded the firm in 1993, and is the managing partner. He is considered one of the most succe... link >>
Elizabeth A. Fegan
Beth is a partner in Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's Chicago office where she has worked since 2004. Her pra... link >>
Beth is a partner in Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's Chicago office where she has worked since 2004. Her pra... link >>
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