It would be interesting to see how they try to go out about pursuing a case like that. They don’t name the former player, so it’s uncertain how long he actually played in the NFL. In the meantime, he probably played football for 10-15 years at other levels before he ever signed his first NFL contract. How do you assign liability in a case like that?
#4 Alberta’s Child wrote ~
>>They don’t name the former player, so it’s uncertain how long he actually played in the NFL.<<
The NY Daily News had a story last week about Tony Dorsett (Touchdown Tony) suffering from CTE...
Logic is not the primary criteria when assigning legal liability in our system.
If it were, we would not have the Deep Pockets laws in many states. Settlements are based on the ability to pay rather than actual causal liability.
There was a case many years ago in Florida where a man at a phone booth was severely injured by a drunk driver who ran off the road and hit him. The vast majority of the settlement he received was assigned to the owner of the phone booth, GTE, because they had the most money.
You sue everybody who has deep pockets, the teams, the NFL, the advertisers, the taxpayer who paid for the stadium...
The legal principle is well established -- the one with the deepest pockets pays the lion's share.
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