Seau's family settles concussion lawsuit against NFL

Betallsports · Oct 5, 2018

[FONT=&quot]The family of former NFL linebacker Junior Seau has reached a confidential agreement with the NFL to end the family’s lawsuit against the league after deciding not to take part in the larger class-action settlement with the NFL over player brain injuries.

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[FONT=&quot]Seau shot himself to death in 2012 at age 42. A postmortem study of his brain concluded he had suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has been linked to head trauma in football.

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[FONT=&quot]In its wrongful death lawsuit against the league, the family accused the NFL of negligence and said Seau had suffered from symptoms of brain injury caused by repetitive, traumatic head injuries as an NFL player.

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[FONT=&quot]The family’s attorney, Steve Strauss of the firm Cooley LLP, praised the family for sticking with it after filing suit in 2013. On Friday, he filed a notice of dismissal of the case in federal court on behalf of the family.

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[FONT=&quot]“Throughout this process, they have demonstrated the same spirit and commitment that their father Junior modeled during his incredible life and NFL career,” Strauss said in a statement. “We know he would have been proud of them.”

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[FONT=&quot]The family decided to go it alone against the NFL instead of joining the class-action concussion litigation settlement between the league and thousands of other former players. That settlement became effective in January 2017 and already is showing more than $560 million in approved claims, as of Friday.

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[FONT=&quot]Seau played in the NFL from 1990 to 2009, including 13 years with the San Diego Chargers.[/FONT]

Enfuego · Oct 5, 2018

Do you think servicemembers that take their own lives because of PTSD can sue the DoD?

skoda · Oct 5, 2018

Wonder being a smoker, wait a-minute. There was one filed and I think 48 States received Cash, Pennsylvania cut was 330 million from 1998 thru 2025. Where DA money..... Balance Budgets? (<)<smokers Check your States Enfugeo cheersgif

Curious.... Seau family did not join the "Class action" more interesting that those that did had their claims approved with payouts at 560 million! Crazy ##)

Registered Settlement Class Members

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https://www.nflconcussionsettlement.com/

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

Maybe it was the parents' fault for letting him play youth football, or the high school, or the college, or maybe he got into a few too many fights when he was a kid

Truth is we really don't know where, when or why, although I understand why the NFL would settle

Kinda like blaming cigarette companies for you choosing to smoke or Ronald McDonald because you're obese or diabetic

and Enfuego, good observation and great question about military members

HacheMan · Oct 6, 2018

Sad story as they are all but ppl make their own choices...

RunMaker · Oct 6, 2018

I think this is all bullshit. I liked Seau a lot. Does a coal miner get to sue a mining company for lung cancer? Seems like a legit joke.

30 or 40 years ago people would've laughed at this shit as a joke. However, lawyers gonna lawyer.

But if you take it back to the beginning and his family filed a lawsuit for the brain damage, don't you think it's the fucking parents fault? For example, would you let your kid play football knowing he could get massive brain damage? That falls on the parents.

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

Maybe accountants can sue the IRS for cramming everything into tax season and causing stress and heart attacks and bad eating habits

JustinCruise · Oct 6, 2018

Willie99 said:
Maybe it was the parents' fault for letting him play youth football, or the high school, or the college, or maybe he got into a few too many fights when he was a kid

Truth is we really don't know where, when or why, although I understand why the NFL would settle

Kinda like blaming cigarette companies for you choosing to smoke or Ronald McDonald because you're obese or diabetic

and Enfuego, good observation and great question about military members

A few too many fights when he was a kid? Cmon man

Ricboff · Oct 6, 2018

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/30/us/nfl-concussions-fast-facts/index.html

Here's some background information about concussions in the National Football League. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head.

Reports show an increasing number of retired NFL players who have suffered concussions have developed memory and cognitive issues such as dementia, Alzheimer's, depression and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Facts:
Most concussions occur without losing consciousness.
CTE is a degenerative disease of the brain and is associated with repeated head traumas like concussions.
Among the plaintiffs in concussion-related lawsuits: Art Monk, Tony Dorsett, Jim McMahon, and Jamal Anderson.
Common Symptoms of Concussions: (The NFL Player Concussion Pamphlet)
Imbalance
Headache
Confusion
Memory loss
Loss of consciousness
Vision change
Hearing change
Mood change
Fatigue
Malaise
Statistics on Diagnosed Concussions (NFL - IQVIA):
(Preseason and regular-season practices plus games)
2012 - 265
2013 - 244
2014 - 212
2015 - 279
2016 - 250
2017 - 291
Timeline:
1994 - NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue creates the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. Dr. Elliot Pellman is named chairman despite not having experience with brain injuries.
2002 - Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist and co-founder of the Brain Injury Research Institute, identifies chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the brain of former Pittsburgh Steelers' center Mike Webster, 50, who committed suicide. Omalu is the first to identify CTE in American football players.
January 2005 - The NFL's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee finds that returning to play after sustaining a concussion "does not involve significant risk of a second injury either in the same game or during the season."
2005 and 2006 - Dr. Omalu identifies CTE in the brains of former Pittsburgh Steelers players Terry Long and Andre Waters. Both had committed suicide.
February 2007 - Dr. Pellman steps down as chairman of the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee but remains a member.
June 2007 - The NFL holds a medical conference on concussions.
August 14, 2007 - The NFL formalizes new concussion guidelines which include a telephone hotline to report when a player is being forced to play contrary to medical advice.
October 28, 2009 - Part I of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defends the League's policy regarding concussions.
January 4, 2010 - Part II of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries. Dr. Ira Casson, one of the co-chairs of the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, denies a link between repeat head impacts and long-term brain damage.
March 2010 - The NFL's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee is renamed the Head, Neck and Spine Committee. Two new co-chairs are selected, and Dr. Pellman is no longer a member of the panel.
October 20, 2010 - NFL Commissioner Goodell issues a memo to all 32 teams that warns of possible suspensions for offenders that violate the "playing rules that unreasonably put the safety of another player in jeopardy have no place in the game, and that is especially true in the case of hits to the head and neck."
February 17, 2011 - Former Chicago Bears defensive back Dave Duerson, 50, commits suicide with a gunshot wound to the chest rather than his head so his brain can be researched for CTE. Boston University researchers find CTE in Duerson's brain, the same disease found in other deceased NFL players.
April 19, 2012 - Former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, 62, commits suicide. An autopsy finds signs of CTE. Easterling had been a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the NFL over concussion-related injuries filed in August 2011.
May 2, 2012 - Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau, 43, is found dead with a gunshot wound to the chest, classified as a suicide. Friends and family members say his suicide was brought on by multiple concussions, but an initial autopsy report finds no apparent brain damage. Portions of Seau's brain have been sent to the National Institutes of Health for further study.
June 7, 2012 - A unified lawsuit combining more than 80 concussion-related lawsuits on behalf of more than 2,000 National Football League players is filed in federal court in Philadelphia. The players accuse the NFL of negligence and failing to notify players of the link between concussions and brain injuries, in Multi-District Litigation Case No. 2323.
August 30, 2012 - The NFL files a motion to dismiss the concussion related lawsuits filed by former players.
September 5, 2012 - The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health announces the NFL has committed to donating $30 million to support research on medical conditions prominent in athletes.
January 10, 2013 - The National Institutes of Health releases the results of their analysis of Junior Seau's brain tissue confirming that Seau did suffer from CTE.
January 23, 2013 - Junior Seau's family files a wrongful death lawsuit against the NFL, claiming that Seau's suicide was the result of a brain disease caused by violent hits he endured while playing the game.
August 29, 2013 - The NFL and ex-players reach a deal in the class action lawsuit that calls for the NFL to pay $765 million to fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation, medical research for retired NFL players and their families, and litigation expenses, according to a court document filed in US District Court in Philadelphia. The agreement still needs to be approved by the judge assigned to the case, which has grown to include more than 4,500 plaintiffs.
December 13, 2013 - The body of former NFL linebacker Jovan Belcher is exhumed in order to perform tests on his brain, a lawyer for the player's family tells the Kansas City Star. On December 1, 2012, Belcher, 25, shot his longtime girlfriend to death and then killed himself.
January 14, 2014 - A federal judge declines to approve a proposed $760 million settlement of claims arising from concussions suffered by NFL players, saying she didn't think it was enough money.
May 28, 2014 - Former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and 14 other former NFL players sue the NFL over concussions.Their lawsuit claims the NFL knew for years of the link between concussions and long-term health problems.
June 3, 2014 - It is reported that Marino has withdrawn his name from the concussion lawsuit.
July 7, 2014 - The US District Court in Philadelphia grants preliminary approval to a settlement between retired NFL players and the National Football League.
July 17, 2014 - Former NFL players Christian Ballard and Gregory Westbrooks file suit against the NFL Players Association, alleging the union withheld information about head injuries.
September 30, 2014 - Dr. Piotr Kozlowski releases a report on former NFL linebacker Jovan Belcher, stating that he likely had CTE when he killed his girlfriend and himself in 2012.
April 22, 2015 - A federal judge gives final approval to a class-action lawsuit settlement between the National Football League and thousands of former players. The agreement provides up to $5 million per retired player for serious medical conditions associated with repeated head trauma.
November 25, 2015 - Frank Gifford's family says he suffered from CTE. Gifford's diagnosis comes amid a growing focus on the risks athletes face from suffering repeated concussions, and just hours after the NFL admitted its concussion protocols had failed when St. Louis Rams quarterback Case Keenum kept playing Sunday even after his head injury on the field.
February 3, 2016 - Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who died in July 2015 of colon cancer, is diagnosed posthumously with CTE by researchers at Boston University.
March 14, 2016 - For the first time, a senior NFL official publicly acknowledges a connection between football and CTE. At a round-table discussion with the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, when asked if "there is a link between football and degenerative brain disorders like CTE," Jeff Miller, the NFL's senior vice president of health and safety policy, answers "the answer to that question is certainly, yes."
July 25, 2016 - The NFL and NFL Players' Association (NFLPA) implement a new policy to enforce concussion protocol. Teams violating the policy are subject to discipline, through fines or losing upcoming draft picks.
September 14, 2016 - Commissioner Goodell announces an initiative intended to increase the safety of the game, specifically by preventing, diagnosing and treating head injuries. As part of the initiative, the league and its 32 club owners will provide $100 million in support of engineering advancements and medical research -- in addition to the $100 million previously pledged by the league to medical and neuroscience research.
July 25, 2017 - A study published in the medical journal JAMA identifies CTE in 99% of deceased NFL players' brains that were donated to scientific research -- 110 out of 111 former NFL players.
September 21, 2017 - Attorney Jose Baez tells reporters that results from tests performed on the brain of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who was convicted in 2015 of murder, showed a "severe case" of CTE. (The conviction was vacated after his death in April 2017.)
November 10, 2017 - Researchers publish in the journal Neurosurgery, what they say is the first case of a living person identified with CTE. Lead author Dr. Bennet Omalu confirmed to CNN that the subject of the case, while unnamed in the study, was former NFL player, Fred McNeill -- who died in 2015. The only way to definitively diagnose CTE is with a brain exam after death.

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there is no doubt about of the link of repeated head trauma and CTE. Did the NFL know about it, and then do nothing about it ? that is, did not warn its players. Did they implement medical protocol in handling in-game head injury? they have now...

if you have a child that's a multi-sport athlete....choose anything but football.........choose golf

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Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

JustinCruise said:
A few too many fights when he was a kid? Cmon man

when did he first suffer blows to the head, seriously? Do you really think only playing football causes this? and only when you play football in the NFL?

C'mon man

Ricboff · Oct 6, 2018

Willie99 said:
Maybe accountants can sue the IRS for cramming everything into tax season and causing stress and heart attacks and bad eating habits

nah, it takes fantastic personal negligence to clog your arteries (barring genetic predisposition), its not seasonal.....but gl with your claim

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

I arrived at my conclusions on my own, with a minimal amount of reading mix in with a tab of critical thinking. So I do a 30 second search and look what I find.

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What Causes CTE?

Surprisingly, a child does not need to play in the NFL to get Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). It is now being detected in student athletes who never played college or professional sports. CTE is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain linked to repetitive brain trauma. This can beHits can be symptomatic concussions as well as sub-concussive hits to the head that DO NOT CAUSE symptoms (repetitive head impacts). Many routine American football tackles involve sub-concussive hits. Just the action of stopping a moving brain quickly can create a sub-concussive hit.

In layman’s terms… the brain floats on its stem in fluid inside your skull. When the skull stops suddenly, twists violently, or takes a blow, the floating brain can smack or abrade against the rough inside of the skull. At this point researchers believe that the brain tissue can become damaged and a protein called tau can become present. A person with damaged brain tissue from these sub-concussive hits may think everything is normal because symptoms are often not present with these smaller hits. This is the part researchers find troubling because without symptoms the athlete subjects the brain to further hits, thus compounding an already serious problem. As time goes on this tau protein spreads and begins to interfere with the proper functioning of the brain. This is the nightmare known as CTE.
Some neurologists believe that the child brain is more susceptible and the sooner a child plays in a sport that involves head trauma, the greater the risk. This may be because the brain is not fully developed until the mid twenties and the fact that kids’ heads are disproportionally large compared to their bodies and necks. Add the weight of a helmet to the head and a young child becomes a “bobble-doll” and more unbalanced.
Other researchers believe that as a child advances in age in the game of American football and other sports the hits become more intense. They claim that no matter how developed the neck and body has become, the hits are of car crash proportions and CTE becomes a very real threat.

http://stopcte.org/whats-cte/what-causes-cte/

Ricboff · Oct 6, 2018

lol, the NFL should have hired you in its defense .......

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

Ricboff said:
nah, it takes fantastic personal negligence to clog your arteries (barring genetic predisposition), its not seasonal.....but gl with your claim

Negligence created by the government taking up and wasting too much time, putting more and more demand on us, it's just not right

Dude, I'm mocking that thinking and the process and the simpleton conclusions

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

Ricboff said:
lol, the NFL should have hired you in its defense .......

What, you don't believe the CTE Awareness Foundation?

Now I'm being serious http://stopcte.org/whats-cte/what-causes-cte/

PS: I do think the NFL not disclosing their findings hurts their case, and law is a legal scale (or at least it's supposed to be). There are pros and cons, it's about the preponderance of evidence.

Ricboff · Oct 6, 2018

no 'dude', a working environment should know its risks if there's data out there. There should be no 'hiding' it. NFL fought back and lost-- perhaps if they had that quick google retort you provided they would have won? talk about simpletons...

send the link to the NFL

JustinCruise · Oct 6, 2018

Ricboff said:
lol, the NFL should have hired you in its defense .......

Lmao right

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

Ricboff said:
no 'dude', a working environment should know its risks if there's data out there. There should be no 'hiding' it. NFL fought back and lost-- perhaps if they had that quick google retort you provided they would have won? talk about simpletons...

send the link to the NFL

So you think we actually know when somebody first developed CTE? that's funny, because scientists who research the subject don't know that answer. Maybe you should start advising them

What they do know is trauma causes CTE, and lots of events can cause that trauma like a punch to the head, and car accidents and falling off a bicycle and violent shaking and yes, obviously playing football. We're also learning that more people are suffering from CTE than originally thought.

I've made my points, you've made yours, we're probably not going to change each other's minds.

Ricboff · Oct 6, 2018

i posted the CNN article for further information on the topic. If you feel there is no link, fine..who cares? Obviously, the NFL felt like like you did, gathered a defense littered with their docs/scientists and..lost . Is what it is. Statistically they didnt have a chance, the evidence is too overwhelming .They have also implemented in game policy in an effort to protect the long term health of the athletes

Willie99 · Oct 6, 2018

I posted what scientists and researchers working for the CTE Awareness Foundation think. If that doesn't mean much to you, fine, who cares.

And if you're concluding that I said there's NO link to CTE and playing football in the NFL, then your comprehension of my argument is incredibly ignorant. What I said is very obvious, brain trauma causes CTE, and scores of activities cause brain trauma, and we don't know for sure why any one person has CTE. That's my argument

I also said the NFL was wrong to withhold their findings. I don't live in a black and white world, there's a ton more grey

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