Sports Law Expert takes a Closer Look at $200 Million Concussion Lawsuit against the CFL

By Jon Heshka, Associate Dean of Law at Thompson Rivers University (British Columbia, Canada)   It was only a matter of time when before the Canadian Football League (CFL) would be named in a concussion class action lawsuit. On the heels of the first CFL concussion lawsuit filed last year in The Supreme Court of British Columbia, a class action suit being filed last year against the National Hockey League over Canada’s national winter sport and no doubt emboldened by the $1 billion NFL se