Miami Dolphins Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino headlines a list of 14 former NFL players in a new lawsuit against the league, charging fraud and neglect over past concussion injuries.
The new concussion lawsuit against the NFL comes on the heels of 4,500 ex-players settling a $765 million lawsuit against the league that some charged was too little,
according to the Miami Herald.
Marino, who lost his in-studio football analyst job at CBS in February after 12 seasons, is charging in the suit that the head injuries caused long-term suffering and financial loss, reported the Herald. Marino played in the NFL from 1983 to 1999. The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages, punitive damages and relief for medical monitoring.
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The lawsuit said that the NFL has "continuously and fervently denied that it knew, should have known or believed there to be any relationship between NFL players suffering concussions while playing, the NFL policies concerning tackling methodology or the NFL policies about return-to-play, and long-term physical, neurological, mental and cognitive problems, such as headaches, dizziness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS – a/k/a Lou Gehrig’s Disease), dementia and/or Alzheimer’s disease, impulse control, anger issues, confusion, depression and/or other neurogenic disorders that many players have experienced.”
Other former players involved in the lawsuit, according to the Herald, include Richard Bishop, Ethan Johnson, Chris Dugan, Anthony Grant, Mark Green, LaCurtis Jones, John Huddleston, Erik Affholter, Toddrick McIntosh, Dwight Wheeler, Jackie Wallace, Moses Moreno, Peter Manning (his wife Susie) and Bruce Clark.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Sol Weiss, one of Marino's attorneys, is also co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the consolidated litigation against the NFL.
"We continue to work at the direction of the court and special master as they review the settlement agreement and rightfully ensure that all members of the class are protected," Weiss and Chris Seeger, the other co-lead counsel, said in a statement. "We look forward to finalizing this agreement so that former players can soon begin taking advantage of its benefits."
In April,
former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar charged that injuries from concussions during his playing days which led to slurred speech cost him his job as the team's preseason broadcast analyst.
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