World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. must face some concussion-related claims in consolidated cases brought by former pro wrestler, the District of Connecticut ruled July 21 (McCullough v. World Wrestling Entm’t Inc., 2016 BL 234486, D. Conn., 15-cv-01074, 7/21/16).
The decision let stand a March ruling that wrestlers Evan Singleton and Vito LoGrasso plausibly stated a claim that WWE “fraudulently omitted known facts regarding a link between wrestling activity and permanent brain damage resulting from traumatic brain injuries.”
Those fraud claims arguably affected the wrestlers’ decisions to enter and re-enter the ring, and may be enough to suspend Connecticut’s ...
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