{"id":325,"date":"2012-03-11T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2012-03-11T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T15:58:22","slug":"nfl-concussion-lawsuit-tracker-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"NFL Concussion Lawsuit Tracker: 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Locks Law Firm continues to attract clients. Earlier this week Gene Locks filed another concussion-related lawsuit. The lawsuit is a mass tort and includes 66 former players and their wives: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pugh-v.-NFL.pdf\">Jethro Pugh, et al v. NFL<\/a>.<\/em> This is the eighth lawsuit filed by the Locks Law Firm, and they now represent 300 former players. The <em>Pugh<\/em> suit is no different than the others, asserting counts of negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, fraudulent concealment, conspiracy to defraud, loss of consortium and declaratory relief.<\/p>\n<p>Playerinjury.com has become a valuable <a href=\"http:\/\/sportinlaw.com\/category\/concussion-litigation\/\">advertising<\/a> tool for the Locks Law Firm. The website\u2019s seamless and impersonal way of signing up clients&#8211;by having the former players fill out a questionnaire and sign a retainer agreement for a 33 and 1\/3 contingency fee\u2014has surely had a profound impact on getting clients. Some lawyers involved in the lawsuits don\u2019t think too highly of this impersonal method of soliciting and contracting with clients.<\/p>\n<p>As I stated before, I don\u2019t think we are anywhere close to seeing the end. There are now over 750 former players&#8211;roughly 781\u2014involved, a small fraction of the thousands of former and retired players that could potentially join the lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits will continue to pile on, and they will slowly become \u201ctag-along actions,\u201d joining the multidistrict litigation (MDL) in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Some notable players named in the <em>Pugh<\/em> lawsuit include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WateCh00.htm\">Charlie Waters<\/a>, three-time Pro Bowler for the Dallas Cowboys. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BrowRo03.htm\">Roger Brown<\/a> a six-time Pro Bowler for the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Grabowski\">Jim Grabowski<\/a> a former Green Bay Packer and radio commentator for the University of Illinois. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/1988-09-02\/sports\/0060370260_1_randle-anderson-blur\">Ervin Randle<\/a>, former Tampa Bay Buccaneer, known for delivering helmet-jarring hits, and for winning the so-called \u201cHit of the Year\u201d Award in 1987 after leveling Neal Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Locks Law Firm continues to attract clients. Earlier this week Gene Locks filed another concussion-related lawsuit. The lawsuit is a mass tort and includes 66 former players and their wives: Jethro Pugh, et al v. NFL. This is the eighth lawsuit filed by the Locks Law Firm, and they now represent 300 former players. [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}