South Carolina Jury Awards Former Student-Athlete $18 Million in Concussion Lawsuit Filed Against the NCAA

By Professor Robert J Romano, JD, LLM, St. John’s University, Senior Writer In April of 2019, Robert Geathers, a former member of the South Carolina State University football team, together with his wife Debra, filed a negligence and fraud action against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the state of South Carolina’s Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District Circuit. Per their five-count complaint, the Geathers alleged that the college governing body negli