NFL Faces Tobacco-Like Damages Reaching Billions Of Dollars In Concussion Litigation

[jonathanlambert33]

"The key issue will be whether the NFL took affirmative action in an effort to disprove such findings, effectively withholding information and failing to warn players about the long-term health risk when they suit up and enter the field of play. Articles like the one titled, Game Brain, written by Jeanne Marie Laskas in October 2009, will not help the NFL's position in its fight against the pending litigation. In that article, Laskas wrote that in 2005, three scientists from NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury committee (who were on the NFL's payroll) tried to get an article retracted from the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Neurosurgery, which used scientific evidence to explain that "repeated blows to the head sustained in football could cause severe, debilitating brain damage." The NFL's scientists disagreed with the findings and said that it was a complete misunderstanding."


In 2010, the NFL earned $9 billion in revenues. Should the plaintiffs, who appear to be growing in number by the day, eventually have their Master Complaint reach trial, it appears that the NFL could be confronted with the possibility of paying out tobacco-like damages reaching upwards of billions of dollars. That level of liability would likely bring the NFL to an abrupt end.

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[.infamous]

If a judge ruled against the nfl...he/she is gonna have lot of angry people to be answering to. But I don't see this going through.