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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Another &#8220;New&#8221; Playa Care Benefit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Pear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, many of you have now been receiving your letters about another new &#8220;joint-venture&#8221; program between the NFL and the NFLPA from their Player Care Foundation. This one&#8217;s for a &#8220;Neurological Care Program Benefit.&#8221; We&#8217;ve already been receiving a lot of comments (putting it mildly) from our readers. . Just another bunch of nothing! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Say No&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After posting up Andrew Stewart&#8217;s story earlier this week, we decided that this is a perfect time to post another personal experience that Dave has recently had. Late last year, Dave quietly approached NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith about his disability case. While there were no expectations of favorable outcomes, we all felt that with [...]]]></description>
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