Tag Archives: intense exercise

Physical Education teacher's family awarded death benefits for after school student-faculty basketball game fatality

In this very sad case, the decedent was a physical education teacher at a Tidewater area Middle School. He collapsed during an after-school student/faculty basketball game. He ran up and down the court once and collapsed and then died. The claim by the teacher’s widow and children was denied by his employer and their third…

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Workers Compensation Commission rules "no foul" in insurance company's denial of Wal-Mart basketball player's injury claim

In a split decision, the Full Commission ruled on March 4th that a Wal-Mart employee who was injured in a company team’s charity game was NOT entitled to workers comp benefits. In a 2-1 decision, the VWC concluded “the claimant did not prove that the employer mandated, encouraged or promoted his participation at the game…

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Widow's lawsuit against NFL settled – heatstroke death case leads to heat-illness prevention program

I was glad to hear that the lawsuit filed by the widow of Viking lineman Korey Stringer was finally settled. Mrs. Stringer sued the NFL after her husband died of heatstroke during training camp in 2001. (See Sports Illustrated 7/29/02.) The athlete’s widow alleged the league had not done enough to protect players from heat…

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Hydrotherapy a staple of Triathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau’s training and sports injury prevention regimen

Practicing what he preaches, Triathlon Trial lawyer Doug Landau hops in the pool and runs in the deep water. The Athletes Lawyer is shown here at the Fairfax County Parks Providence Community Center Pool before a recent successful trial. This helps move byproducts of intense bouts of exercise out of sore muscles without impact or…

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