April 2010
Posts published in April 2010
Women Lead The Charge In Battle Over The NFL and TBI
The New York Times during the past week has done a series of stories about the parties leading the fight to win compensation for retired National Football League players who have contracted early dementia. In a story in the Sunday Times, headlined “In the Fight to Address Head Trauma, Women Lead the Way,” sports writer ...
Ex-Football Players, Now Lawyers, Defend Peers In Workman’s Comp Cases In California
Now here are two attorneys who can really relate to their clients. Two former pro-football-players turned lawyers are now representing roughly 1,000 ex-players in what could be landmark worker’s compensation cases in California, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/sports/football/08lawyers.html?hpw Ron Mix in the 1960s was with the San Diego Chargers, and was a Hall ...
California May Be Forum For Deciding Whether The NFL Can Be Held Liable For Retired Players Developing Alzheimer’s Disease
A case in California is shaping up as a test of whether the National Football League is liable for the dementia that is striking retired players who sustained head injuries during their careers. The details of the case are carefully spelled out in a lengthy Page One story in The New York Times by sports ...
Opinions Offered on Whether Repeated CT Scans Too Dangerous for Fighters
Ultimate Fight Championship welterweight Thiago “Pitbull” Alves may be alive today because he was scheduled to fight in New Jersey, which has some of the strictest rules regarding pre-fight clearances. And that may have saved Alves. Under the New Jersey State Athletic Commission rules, Alves had to get a CT scan performed before he was ...
Pentagon To Study Using Hyperbaric Chambers To Treat TBI
The Defense Department is doing an 18-month-long study to determine if hyperbaric chambers, typically used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning, can also help those with mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/defense-dept-to-study-effect-of-hyperbaric-chamber-on-traumatic-brain-injury/1 News of the study was first reported by the Army Times, which said that 100,000 troops have been diagnosed with mild TBI. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/03/army_TBI_033010w/ The ...
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