Concussion litigation recently filed against World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has the earmarks of pending litigation against the NCAA, NFL and NHL, but also raises questions unique to professional wrestling, sports law analysts tell Bloomberg BNA.
Fifty-one former wrestlers and two referees claim WWE negligently shirked its duty of care by failing to protect them from concussions and long-term neurological damage, including a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (Laurinaitis v. World Wrestling Entm’t, Inc., D. Conn., 16-cv-01209, filed 7/18/16).
That theme is central to concussion-related litigation filed by other professional athletes against the National Football ...
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