NFL Rules Trial for Wrongful Death of Junior Seau

Although most former players benefit from head injuries while playing professional football, treated and resolved through a more comprehensive concussion settlement, players had the right to exclude themselves and make their own claims to the sport. against the league. That's what the Pantheon linebacker's family, Junior Seau, did.

On Friday, the NFL settled the Bucket trial.

<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Via Teri Figueroa of the San Diego Union-Tribune, both parties reached a confidential agreement to resolve the Seau suicidal litigation in May 2012. Seau's brain showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and his family blamed Seau's suicide for years of concussions. when he played professional football. "Data-reactid =" 20 "> Via Teri Figueroa from San Diego Union-Tribune, both parties reached a confidential agreement to resolve the Seau suicidal dispute in May 2012. Seau's brain showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and his family blamed Seau's suicide for years of concussion. suffered while playing professional football.

Seau played for the first time in 1990, in the first round, in 2009. This is the year the NFL reluctantly admitted (after years of walls) that concussions can cause long-term health problems. As a linebacker, Seau regularly delivered and absorbed shots with and on his helmet.

Attorney Steve Strauss explained that the settlement amount could not be discussed, but that Seau's clients (his four children and his estate) were "satisfied" with the result.

According to Figueroa, the estate of Seau would have received $ 4 million according to the formula established by the regulation of the concussion. Presumably, Bucket's domain has had more than that.

Confidentiality provisions are very common in civil settlements negotiated between private parties in litigation. The party who pays the money strongly prefers not to let the world know the amount of the payment, so as to avoid both negative consequences for public relations and an open invitation to continue the similar recovery achieved by a company perceived as ready to buy the price. way out of the trials. This necessarily adds value to the claim and can potentially stimulate the recovery of the Seau Estate.

The league's obvious desire to prevent its files from being subjected to a thorough inspection of what the league knew and from the league's knowledge of concussions was also potentially an asset for the relaunch of the league. the bucket estate. If this information were made available to the public for broad public and media scrutiny, NFL football could quickly be relegated to the rank of third class in the US professional sports landscape.