{"id":246,"date":"2012-02-13T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:06:22","slug":"concussion-lawsuit-tracker-update-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Concussion Lawsuit Tracker Update: 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edited Feb.13 at 8:00pm<\/em><\/p>\n

As of Friday February 10th, 29 concussion-related lawsuits have been filed against the NFL. The additional lawsuits not mentioned in this article are listed below: two wrongful deaths (Hilgenberg & Duranko) and Adams v. NFL and Henesey v. NFL.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Friday, the twenty-fifth concussion-related lawsuit was filed against the NFL. The rainmakers at the Locks Law Firm filed their fifth lawsuit on behalf of the former players. The lawsuit is a mass tort naming 62 plaintiffs, including Jeremiah Trotter and Seth Joyner. The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, captioned Steve Everitt et al v. NFL<\/a>.<\/em> The lawsuit is identical to the other suits filed by the Locks Firm, asserting seven counts against the NFL: 1) declaratory relief, 2) conspiracy to defraud, 3) fraudulent concealment, 4) fraud, 5) negligent misrepresentation, 6) negligence and 7) loss of consortium on behalf of the players\u2019 wives.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also includes several elderly former players, including 85-year-old Fred Morrison, 81-year-old Bill Howton and 79-year-old Richard Bielski. It will be interesting to see how their age impacts their claims for relief. The NFL will likely argue that during their career the science of concussions was completely unknown, and these players were bound to have later-life cognitive decline despite playing football.<\/p>\n

There are now twenty-five lawsuits filed against the NFL; this \u201ctag-along action\u201d will eventually be consolidated with the MDL, NFL Concussion Injury Litigation. <\/em><\/p>\n

Lawsuit total:<\/p>\n

Easterling v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Aug. 17) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Pear v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Oct. 11) CA<\/p>\n

Barnes v. NFL<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(Oct. 11) CA<\/p>\n

Maxwell v. NFL<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(Oct. 11) CA<\/p>\n

Hardman v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Oct. 13; voluntarily dismissed)<\/del><\/p>\n

Finn v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Dec. 5) NJ<\/p>\n

Jacobs v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Dec. 20) NY-Manhattan<\/p>\n

Levens v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Dec. 21) ATL<\/p>\n

Lewis v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Dec. 21) ATL<\/p>\n

Stewart v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Dec. 21) ATL<\/p>\n

Kuykendall v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Dec. 21) ATL<\/p>\n

Jones v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Dec. 22) MIA<\/p>\n

Rucker v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Dec. 27) NY<\/p>\n

Boyd v. NFL <\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Jan. 9) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Dronett v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Jan. 9) ATL<\/p>\n

Austin v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a> (Jan. 9) ATL<\/p>\n

Ron Solt v. NFL<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Jan.18) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Joel Steed v. NFL<\/a> (Jan. 19) CA<\/p>\n

Andrew Glover v. NFL<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Jan. 19) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Rob Johnson v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Jan. 20) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Steve Wallace v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Jan. 23) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Shawn Wooden & Ryan Fowler v. NFL<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(Jan. 24) Miami<\/p>\n

Fred Barnett et al v. NFL<\/a> (Feb. 2) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Ashley Lelie et al v. NFL<\/a> <\/em>(Feb. 3) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Britt Hager et al v. NFL<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Feb. 3) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Estate of Wally Hilgenberg v. NFL<\/em><\/a> (Feb. 3) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Estate of Pete Duranko v. NFL<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>(Feb. 9) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Adams v. NFL<\/a><\/em> (Feb. 9) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Steve Everitt et al v. NFL<\/a><\/em> (Feb. 10) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n

Henesey v. NFL<\/a><\/em> (Feb. 10) E.D. Penn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edited Feb.13 at 8:00pm As of Friday February 10th, 29 concussion-related lawsuits have been filed against the NFL. The additional lawsuits not mentioned in this article are listed below: two wrongful deaths (Hilgenberg & Duranko) and Adams v. NFL and Henesey v. NFL. On Friday, the twenty-fifth concussion-related lawsuit was filed against the NFL. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,14,12,13,15,4],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}