Former SC State player wins $18 million lawsuit against NCAA

[18IsTheMan]

Due to concussions. Obviously will be appealed and I'd expect that number would come down a bit. Certainly opens the floodgates for other similar lawsuits.

South Carolina jury awards $18 million in NCAA concussion lawsuit

The verdict can be appealed.

www.wyff4.com

 

[I4CtheFuture]

Needs to be tossed entirely.

These players know the risks when they step on the field. No one forced anybody to play.

 

[18IsTheMan]

Needs to be tossed entirely.

These players know the risks when they step on the field. No one forced anybody to play.

Yeah, I dunno. Obviously a very friendly jury in Orangeburg.

I don't know if anyone really knew all the risks in the 1970s when he played. Brain imaging via CT only came around in the early 1970s. MRI in the 80s.

His case rested heavily on some 1930s NCAA handbooks on concussions, but they didn't really know diddly in the 1930s about this stuff (which is why they called it "punch drunk syndrome"). He alleges the existence of these documents proves they knew there was risk but nobody told the players about it. I think that's a stretch. To go from "they knew there were risks" to holding them fully liable for his dementia is a stretch.

 

[gamecox4982]

Wonder if I could get some for the three I had in HS back in the mid 70’s?

 

[kidrobinski]

One of my relatives was on that jury. It was purely a money grab perpetrated by a Pennsylvania lawyer with several other similar cases being mitigated. The 'plaintiffs' actually contacted this lawyer before they contacted any doctors. The original amount was 50 million; the prosecution played heavily on the plaintiff's wife's 'pain and suffereing' and the jury was stocked with jurors that would play to. It did.

 

[KingWard]

This will be greatly reduced on appeal.