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		<title>For the Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Pear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, the Denver Post published an article and interview I did last week with sports journalist, Terry Frei. Over the course of our conversation which mostly covered the issues of injuries and concussions and the subsequent consequences of the League&#8217;s general attitude of denial at all levels. (A link to that article is at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Stewart: We ARE All Dog Food to the NFL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Some of you may remember Andrew Stewart&#8217;s long battle to access his earned Disability Benefits from the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle Plan. He ended up taking them to court. You can read the earlier posts by clicking HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. All from 2010! . Hi Dave, . Here is an update along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irv Muchnick: 2012 Is the Year of the Tobacco-Style Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irv Muchnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays, Football and Sports Concussion Establishment: 2012 Is the Year of the Tobacco-Style Lawsuit Posted with the express consent of Irv Muchnick from his blog Concussion Inc.: Published December 26th, 2011. . “The year 2011 will be the one in which the American public and government confront the growing evidence of the public-health toll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Lawsuit for the NFL and More&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First the serious stuff: One more helmet concussion lawsuit filed in California by Hausfeld LLP and Pearson Simon Warshaw &#38; Penny LLP, on behalf of Cedrick Hardman and Tommy Mason against the NFL, Riddell and Easton-Bell. The two Exhibits include proposals for medical monitoring and benefits after a career in football. . . And we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irv Muchnick: Dave Duerson&#8217;s Vanishing Act</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/09/irv-muchnick-dave-duersons-vanishing-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irv Muchnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duerson Apparently Did Not Review Andrew Stewart NFL Disability Claim Posted with the express consent of Irv Muchnick: . Published September 10th, 2011 . On August 16, FoxSports.com’s Alex Marvez broke the story of a lawsuit against the National Football League’s Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle Retirement Plan, in federal court in Maryland, by retired player Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New CBA May Contain “Trojan Horse” for Disabled Players</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. By John V. Hogan, Esq. . The new CBA contains a provision that on its face appears to be of benefit to some retired NFL players receiving Total and Permanent disability benefits under the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan. Article 61, Section 2 (a) (i) provides that a player will be permitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Hogan: ERISA 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: On Friday afternoon, NFLPA Disability Board Representative Sam McCullum wrote back to disability attorney John Hogan as part of our heated discussion on retired players&#8217; Disability Benefits and their rights under ERISA law. (Click HERE to go back to that earlier post and be sure to read all the comments that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retired Players&#8217; Lawsuit &#8211; Round 2</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/07/retired-players-lawsuit-round-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the long weekend, attorneys for the Retired Players Class Action lawsuit against the NFL, its owners, the former NFLPA and active players filed another amended 64-page complaint with the US District Court in Minnesota. . We&#8217;ve uploaded a copy of the complaint to Scribd for easy viewing and to make it downloadable. You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NFL Disability Merry-Go-Round</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/06/the-nfl-disability-merry-go-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disability attorney John Hogan went through one more go-round with the NFL Disability Program for another older retired player recently (his name has been removed to protect the innocent). We&#8217;re posting the correspondence online so everyone can see the kind of insanity most of the older players end up going through. (And that&#8217;s only after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFL Damage Control on Concussions</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/05/nfl-damage-control-on-concussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Well, the floodgates are opening wider and wider. Sports Legacy Institute and Boston University held a press conference this past Monday to announce their findings on the late Dave Duerson&#8217;s brain examination. To no one&#8217;s surprise, they discovered the presence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in his brain. . Former NFL player Dave Duerson [...]]]></description>
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