Addressing The Risk of a New Class of Plaintiff: The Reggie Bush Case

By: John E. Tyrrell, Patrick J. McStravick, and Alexander M. Shaen of Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey   On June 12, 2018, a St. Louis jury found the St. Louis Rams liable for Reggie Bush’s 2015 knee injury and awarded him $4.95 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages, for a total award of $12.5 million. While the verdict signaled the end of the “St. Louis” iteration of the now Los Angeles Rams, it gave rise to a new liability risk for stadium operators and pr