Showing posts with label National Football League. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Football League. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2014

State Sen. Leland Yee allegedly solicited bribes for NFL Workers’ Compensation Law

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The NFL controversy involving workers' compensation claims continues to heat up. Today's post by Brett Gowen of the California Bar...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Trickle Down Consequences of Professional Athletic Head Injuries

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The new NFL logo went into use at the 2008 draft. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The consequences of denying workers' compensation benef...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Football: The Business of Uncompensated Injuries

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It is hard to image that any other Industry that denies its employees workers’s compensation benefits for known work-connected injuries ...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Uncertainty Over Whether N.F.L. Settlement’s Money Will Last

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As intriguing football matchups go, Sunday’s Super Bowl has nothing on one looming down the turnpike in federal court in Philadelphia — wit...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Judge Refuses to Sign Off on NFL Settlement

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Workers' compensation has been a successful vehicle to shield employers from liability. Perhaps the the NFL should have considered wh...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

With N.F.L. Concussion Deal, Two Tiers of Payouts

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Today's post was shared by The New York Times and comes from www.nytimes.com Court settlements are by nature compromises, and...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

NFL concussion payout formula would provide up to $5 million per retired player

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Today's post is shared from nola.com Lawyers representing former NFL players in the proposed $765 million settlement of thousands o...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Five Former N.F.L. Players Sue the Chiefs Over Head Injuries

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Today's post was shared by The New York Times and comes from www.nytimes.com Five former Kansas City Chiefs sued the team Tues...
Monday, November 11, 2013

California Tossed Out NFL Players Brain Injury Claim: Time To Change The System?

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While professional teams in California have sheltered themselves from workers' compensation claims, the injuries have not gone aw...
Friday, November 8, 2013

State panel rejected injury claim by NFL's Dorsett

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Today's post was shared from the latimes.org. A brain-injury claim by former National Football League player Tony Dorsett was th...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Study: No helmet brand can save football players from concussion risk

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Today's post was shared by FairWarning and comes from www.latimes.com Health experts have some bad news for high school football ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

DePaolo's Work Comp World: Genetic Testing?!

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Today's post was shared by WorkCompCentral and comes from daviddepaolo.blogspot.com The reason lawmakers and regulators create rul...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Damage Done

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com The government is reopening, and we didn’t default on...