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2022 Sports Medicine and the Law 1 (2022-2023)

handle is hein.hackboth/sptsmdlw2022 and id is 1 raw text is: Spring 2022 SPORTS MEDICINE a In Latest Chapter of NFL Concussion Litigation Saga, NFL Fights With Its Insurers-and Its Insurers Fight Amongst Themselves-Over $1 Billion in Coverage By Joseph Samuel, Jr, Esq. early seven years after reaching a class-wide settlement-then estimated at roughly $1 billion-with thousands of retired players who brought concussion-related lawsuits, the National Football League is now pressing its claims in New York state court to recoup those funds from various insurers. Meanwhile, disputes remain even among the insurers themselves about who is liable. In a widely publicized 2015 settlement approved by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the NFL agreed to set up an open-ended fund to compensate the alleged victims in a class of concussion lawsuits. Individual payouts from the fund were capped at $5 million. Players were required to submit to baseline assessments and other medical examinations to determine their injuries. At the time, experts predicted that the fund would pay out at least $1 billion. As of the Claims Administrator's latest status report in January 2022, the fund has already paid over $861 million, including over $830 million to members See NFL on Page 12 Diagnosing CTE in the Living - Researchers and the Medical Community Inch Closer to the Goal Line By Jessica Rizzo, Esq. and Dylan Henry, Esq. hen Antonio Brown disrobed in the middle of a Tampa Bay Buccaneers game this January, threw his clothes into the stands, and ran off the field, many rushed to play armchair doctor, publicly speculating that the wide receiver was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the progressive brain disease associated with repeated concussive and sub-concussive blows. The problem? CTE can only be diagnosed through postmortem brain autopsy. That means anyone who may be suffering from CTE is currently unable to be diagnosed with the disease (which is indicated by abnormal deposits of a protein in specific parts of the brain). Speculation about Brown's erratic behavior follows the postmortem CTE diagnoses of his fellow NFL players Vincent Jackson, Phillip Adams, and Aaron Hernandez, who join the list of See CTE on Page 133 id the LAW Discovery Heats Up in Wrongful Death Litigation involving AEDs and High School Athlete 2 Is Youth Football Safe? Recent Study Suggests it Might Not Be as Dangerous as we Once Thought 3 High School Concussion Case Filed Decades Too Late 5 NCAA Committee Adjusts THC Test Threshold, Adopts Level Set by World Anti- Doping Agency 6 Cleveland Browns Head Team Physician James Voos, MD, Elected Vice President of NFL Physicians Society 7 Face mask use among athletes while exercising has no significant effect on physiologic parameters 7 SML Digest 8 Study Explores Methods to Help Reduce Injury Following Successful Post-Concussion Return-To-Play 9 Study Examines Length of Time It Take to Recover from Concussion 10 Early Physical Activity Following a Concussion May Improve Recovery 11 An athletic trainer's journey to Olympic hockey 11

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