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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>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>Jimmie Giles Sues NFL Retirement Plan</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/02/jimmie-giles-sues-nfl-retirement-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney John Hogan has been representing retired Tampa Bay Buccaneer Jimmie Giles to have his status changed from inactive Total &#38; Permanent (T&#38;P) Disability to more evident Football Degenerative T &#38; P Disability. As with Dave&#8217;s case, Jimmie had already qualified for and was receiving Social Security Disability (also difficult to qualify for but nonetheless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evan Weiner: Did the NFL want to take care of discarded players benefits back in 1992?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregg Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, 29 December 2010 . BY EVAN WEINER . For New York Giants backers, this Sunday&#8217;s contest against the Washington Redskins could be the team&#8217;s final game for a long, long time. The National Football League&#8217;s Collective Bargaining Agreement ends on March 3 and should the owners and players not reach an agreement, the NFL&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Wonderful Benefits Programs con&#8217;d</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Pear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of May, I had mailed and posted a series of questions to Mary-Ann Fleming, the NFL&#8217;s Director of Player Benefits. (Click HERE to read the original questions I&#8217;d submitted.) A week later, I received a short letter from them informing me that she was away on business and then on vacation. Nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Honeymoon&#8217;s Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Pear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memo to DeMaurice Smith, . Your statement as recently quoted in The Charlotte Observer, “The rift we had in the past with our former players is over,” said Smith. “It is done.” is simply not true. (You can read the article by clicking HERE.) NOTHING could be further from the truth. Where did you come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernie Parrish: Delay, Dismiss, Deny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Goodell, Chairman of the "Abuse of Discretion Committee" that they call The Retirement Board gets caught red-handed, so now we have people thanking him for putting a minuscule part of his loot back on the counter? ]]></description>
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