Last month two former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestlers filed suit against WWE claiming the organization subjected them to serious brain injury by forcing them to continue to wrestle despite the players suffering repeated concussions in the ring. Furthermore, they claim the WWE knew or should have known that the brutality of the sport would…
Continue readingLast May, Avishek Sengupta, a 28 year old Maryland man, died the day after he jumped into 13 feet of muddy water as a participant in the Tough Mudder obstacle course race held in West Virginia. Sengupta’s mother has filed a wrongful death suit in West Virginia against Tough Mudder, alleging that the race organizers…
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At the end of the summer, a group of soccer parents and players filed a class action lawsuit against Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) — the international governing body for the sport of soccer. The suit, which also names American soccer organizations U.S. Soccer and the American Youth Soccer Organization, charges the groups with…
Continue readingAs a follow-up to the National Football League (NFL) lawsuit in which former players accuse the league of using painkillers to mask athletes’ injuries so the players could “play through the pain”, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now investigating who distributed and provided those drugs. (Read more in a Washington Post article.) At Abrams…
Continue readingAirbags for Olympic skiers are not quite ready for prime time. These safety devices will not be used by competitors in this year’s winter Olympic Games in Sochi. The airbags are designed to offer protection to the chest, shoulders and collarbones, and can absorb up to 61 percent of the force of an impact. Improvements…
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