Riddell Helmets Says Football Players Haven’t Shown Brain Injury

Helmet maker Riddell Inc. and parent company BRG Sports Inc. asked a federal court in Illinois to dismiss concussion claims by former high school and college football players, saying they failed to identify any permanent brain injury they sustained or developed.

The plaintiffs “have alleged merely a host of ‘maladies,’ e.g., depression, memory loss, headaches, impaired judgment, unusual confusion, unusual aggression, unusual inability to multitask, and the like. But these claimed maladies are not proof of any supposed brain injuries,” Riddell told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday.

The plaintiffs’ expert report also fails ...