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Category : Personal Injury
Duerson Findings Could Shape NFL Brain Injury Debate
Duerson’s case is unique beyond the circumstances of his suicide. Since 2006, he had served on the six-member panel that considered claims for disability benefits filed by former N.F.L. players.
Although individual votes are kept confidential, that board has been sparing in awarding benefits, including those for neurological damage. Duerson himself told a United States Senate subcommittee in 2007 that he questioned whether players’ cognitive and emotional struggles were related to football.
The N.F.L. has altered its approach to concussions in recent years, changing rules to help limit them and revamping how concussions are handled when they occur. But those efforts cannot turn back the clock for players who sustained irreversible damage decades ago.
Seeger Weiss Sues VW Over Alleged Headlight Defect
Marie Rita Kennedy-Lebar said in a suit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey that VW and its affiliates have known about but failed to fix headlights that sporadically shut off, exposing drivers to significant danger. The problem occurs in Audi vehicles equipped with an optional high intensity gas discharge headlamp system with xenon bulbs.
VW claims the high intensity gas discharge headlamp systems are superior to halogen headlights, a less expensive option for VW vehicles, because they produce a greater amount of light, consume less power and are intended to last longer.
But while touting the superiority of the product, VW has known that the systems suffer from intermittent failures due to an underlying systemic problem, the suit says.
Kennedy-Lebar is represented by lawyers from Seeger Weiss LLP, including associate Scott George.
Litigation mounts over hip implant
From the Wisconsin Law Journal:Edit
“We think it’s going to be a pretty big litigation,” agreed Chris Seeger, a principal at Seeger Weiss, a New York-based personal injury law firm.
DePuy sold about 93,000 ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems and ASR XL Acetabular Systems. The company has reported that about 12 percent of patients required revision surgery within five years after implantation.
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Seeger said the problem appears to be with the metal-on-metal design of the device, which “seems not to adhere well in the hip joint.”
“The problem is that if there’s a surgical revision required, the whole thing has to be re-done,” he said. “That’s a nasty, messy surgery.”
Wildcats News Roundup
Five years later, the tragic story of the Windsor Wildcat’s deadly bus crash still strikes a cord. National and especially local news outlets have picked up the story of this first verdict awarding damages to three victims of that terrible accident. You can read some of that coverage below.
Windsor Star: “Windsor Wildcats win court battle” (March 10, 2010)
“The verdict demonstrates how seriously the jury was moved by the experiences of having witnessed the deaths of their close friends and teammates,” said Wildcats’ lawyer Moshe Horn. “While these courageous young women and man were fortunate to have survived the crash, their lives haven’t been the same since.”
Windsor Star: “Windsor Wildcats win court battle – Cash cap for crash under appeal” (March 11, 2010)
“We do not understand why Canadian law should apply in a motor vehicle accident in New York,” said lawyer Marc Albert. “We are so confident that New York law applies here, that we think we will prevail.”
Gault said, to her, the monetary sum is irrelevant. “No amount of money is ever going to change what happened.”
Law360: “Jury Awards $2.25M Survivors Of Deadly Bus Crash”
“This probably has been the most painful testimony I’ve seen in my 16-year career as a trial lawyer,” Horn said. “The verdict demonstrates how seriously the jury was moved by their experiences of having witnessed the deaths of their close friends and teammates.”
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