The NFL could face $100 million or more in liability if the league is found responsible for dementia claims by retired players. One worker's compensation claim filed on behalf of Ralph Wenzel in California recently is considered a test case, reports the New York Times.Ronald G. Feenberg of Los Angeles, Wenzel's lawyer, likened football head trauma to asbestos exposure: a workplace danger whose effects can take 20 to 40 years to manifest. “Medical science has recently put those puzzle pieces together — that hitting your head over and over on the football field causes certain conditions,” Feenberg told the newspaper. “All of these hits could have injured Ralph Wenzel’s spine. But they didn’t. They injured his brain.”
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Read about the football-dementia connection.
Read a New York Times article about how women are leading the way in the NFL fight about the impact of head trauma.
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