Football Concussion Cases Percolate High and Low

By By Steven M. Sellers, Bloomberg BNA

Litigation over the $1 billion National Football League concussion settlement isn’t completely settled yet, as the estate of former NFL player Carlton Gilchrist earlier this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the fairness of the deal.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the burgeoning area of litigation involving head injuries to athletes, the Southern District of Indiana is considering new concussion-related class action complaints filed Aug. 31 by seven more former college football players.

Gilhcrist’s Aug. 30 petition asks the nation’s top court to review the Third Circuit’s rejection of claims by 10 former players that the $1 billion settlement is unfair to some players based ...