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Citation

Thorpe D. J. Law Med. 2022; 29(4): 1052-1078.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Thompson - LBC Information Services)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

36763018

Abstract

The settlement of the National Football League (NFL) Players Concussion Litigation was founded on a unique set of circumstances: in essence that the NFL investigated the risk of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy-like harm and then denied the risk. These circumstances are unlikely to be repeated in any of the thousands of lawsuits presently proposed by "non-NFL athletes" around the globe. These athletes face the far more difficult task of proving their overseeing sporting organisation had, or should have had, knowledge that repeated head trauma in playing contact sport can cause severe long-term cognitive harm, but to do so relying on "archived" reports dating back decades.


Language: en

Keywords

concussion; chronic traumatic encephalopathy; litigation

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