Federal Judge Awards Race Participant Nearly $1 Million in Negligence Case A federal judge from the District of South Carolina has awarded nearly $1 million to an invited guest/plaintiff on a boat participating in a sailing race, finding that the captain of the...
By Carla Varriale and Shawn Schatzle, of Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale Plaintiff Marian Sirianni was allegedly injured on June 12, 2011 while watching her grandson play youth baseball at Picken Field in Massapequa, New York. She had been standing in...
By George Grattan David Missirian, assistant professor of law, taxation and financial planning at Bentley University, sees a growing legal and financial risk to colleges, universities, and high schools connected to student athlete concussions. He published on...
Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer & Professor, Sport Management, Drexel University, ejs95@drexel.edu According to Southern Methodist University (SMU) head coach, Doug Wright, the philosophy of the women’s rowing program that he oversaw between...
By Ed Edmonds Thursday, June 29, 2017, is a date that Dustin Fowler will never forget. Fowler made his major league debut that evening playing right field for the New York Yankees against the Chicago White Sox in a game at Guaranteed Rate Field. After flying...
A New York state trial court has denied a motion to dismiss submitted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in a case in which it was sued for negligence by a student-athlete, who suffered multiple concussions while participating in her sport. ...
By Tyler White Peace Ifeacho (“Ifeacho”), the mother of a 15-year-old sophomore basketball player at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, KY who collapsed and died during an open gym session on April 26, 2017, filed a wrongful death suit in Fayette...
A federal judge from the Middle District of Pennsylvania has again dismissed the claim of a cheerleader, who suffered multiple concussions, and subsequently sued her cheerleading coach for negligence. Last summer, the judge dismissed the claim of plaintiff...
A district judge from the Western District of Pennsylvania has reversed a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation to deny a motion to dismiss filed by a school district and other defendants, who claimed they were entitled to qualified immunity. In so...
By Shawn Schatzle, Esq. of Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale, LLP It was May 25, 2013 in Las Vegas, the mecca of combat sports. T.J. Grant, then a 29-year old native of Nova Scotia, was riding a four-fight win streak into a lightweight bout with former...
By Matthew T. Baltz, EdD, Andrew L. Goldsmith, PhD, & Michael S. Carroll, PhD Thirty-four former collegiate athletes who played football at different colleges and universities at different times over the course of several decades are seeking to hold BRG...
A Wisconsin state appeals court has affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a school district and several individual defendants were shielded by governmental immunity laws from a claim brought by a high school student who suffered a concussion in a recreational league...
