Around 2,000 former football players filed a lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) on Thursday, claiming that the NFL knew about the potential for brain damage resulting from violent on-field impacts, and hid that information from them.
The recent suicides of several prominent former professional football players, including Junior Seau, Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, have highlighted the plight of NFL players suffering from brain injuries.
However, NFL said such allegations are baseless. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthey acknowledged the filing, but added that there was nothing new to the claim other than that it merges them all in one place, CNN reported.
“Our legal team will review today’s filing that is intended to consolidate plaintiffs’ existing claims into one “master” complaint,” he said. “The NFL has long made player safety a priority and continues to do so. Any allegation that the NFL sought to mislead players has no merit. It stands in contrast to the league’s many actions to better protect players and advance the science and medical understanding of the management and treatment of concussions.”
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