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26 Sep 2013, 5:24 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by votersinjuredatwork and comes from www.latimes.com The National Football League’s increasingly visible injury legacy has become a topic of national debate, one that threatens to cast a lasting shadow over the country’s most popular, and profitable, sport. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 8:07 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
Emmert said the rules of the National Basketball Association and National Football League that restrict the freedom of athletes to become pros without going to college should be revisited. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 1:42 pm
  The Washington Redskins, an National FootballLeague (NFL) team, and the Atlanta Braves, a Major League Baseball team, are just two examples in major league sports. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 1:20 pm by Kit Case
Today’s post was shared by Workers Comp Brief and comes from www.latimes.com During the pregame show before February’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, Deion Sanders shared his thoughts about the thousands of former football players filing concussion lawsuits against the National Football League. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 4:00 am by Administrator
They say the league failed to educate football players about the risks of head injuries. [read post]
15 Sep 2013, 12:00 pm
These flourished following observation of people's tattoos on the beach publication of a Forbes article that reported rumours that the NFL Players Association (this is the organisation that represents professional American football players in the National Football League) has become increasingly concerned about potential copyright claims concerning its members' tattoos, and has thus started advising agents to tell their players… [read post]
15 Sep 2013, 1:30 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by Workers Comp Brief and comes from www.latimes.comMonths of heavy lobbying by the National Football League and other professional sports team owners paid off when lawmakers gave final passage to a bill to limit most workers' compensation claims by out-of-state professional athletes. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 6:02 pm by INFORRM
  He is not a medical doctor, but in 2011 and 2012, he was brought in to help at least two clubs: the Essendon Football Club in the AFL and the Cronulla Sharks in the NRL, the National Rugby League. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 6:09 am
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) began partnering with the National Football League (NFL) back in 2010 to help to curb drunk driving. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 4:27 am by Jon Gelman
Many of them may have participated in just a handful of games in California over the course of their careers.The crackdown on a workers' compensation claims by athletes has been the focus of a major lobbying campaign by the National Football League and other pro-sports franchises. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 1:46 pm by Paul Caron
Bloomberg, NFL Nonprofit Status Seen Targeted in IRS Code Revision: There’s a fresh spark in Congress to scrap the nonprofit status of sports outfits like the National Football League as part of the revisions to the U.S. tax code. [read post]
8 Sep 2013, 8:56 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from www.latimes.com An effort by the National Football League and owners of other professional sports teams to limit workers' compensation claims by out-of-state athletes is close to final passage in the California Legislature. [read post]
7 Sep 2013, 9:14 pm by J. Gordon Hylton
On a personal note, as an undergraduate, I was a reserve outfielder-first baseman on the baseball team at Oberlin College, a Division III college with an important athletic tradition—Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black major league baseball player, legendary football coach John Heisman, and the last Ohio team to beat Ohio State in football—but by the 1970’s, the college placed very little emphasis on sports. [read post]
7 Sep 2013, 9:37 am
After the family of a former San Diego Chargers linebacker filed a brain injury lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) earlier this year, we’ve been keeping you up to date on the status of a massive NFL concussion lawsuit involving more than 4,500 former players and their families. [read post]
As we have previously discussed on this blog, in recent years, many former NFL players have joined together to file a lawsuit against the National Football League for damages they have incurred as a result of injuries sustained while playing football (many stemming from concussions, etc.). [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 9:39 am by Beth Graham
According to reports, the National Football League (NFL) has agreed to a mediated settlement of $765 million in connection with a concussion lawsuit filed in 2011 by more than 4,500 former professional football players. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 8:38 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) Just before the Labor Day weekend — and just in time for the start of the season — the National Football League announced a settlement agreement with former players who sued the league over concussion injuries sustained while playing professional football. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 4:09 am by Jon Gelman
NFL brain injuries The claims represent a huge financial risk for National Football League teams. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 11:06 am by Cicely Wilson
Bell, South Carolina Supreme Court (8/28/13)Family Law, Trusts & EstatesThis action involved competing claims to the retirement benefits of the late Thomas Sullivan, a former National Football League (NFL) running back for the Philadelphia Eagles. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 4:30 am by David DePaolo
I got a LinkedIn post notification yesterday that gave me some pause for concern...brief pause.The LinkedIn post referenced an article that was authored in large part to promote a company's product for baseline testing, but used the threat of the possible demise of workers' compensation's exclusive remedy in the threat of several RICO lawsuits that had been making the rounds in the country.RICO, as you may know, is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and was made law way back when… [read post]