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LOCKS LAW FIRM NFL CONCUSSION LITIGATION
In connection with the NFL Concussion Litigation, Locks law firm’s class action seeks medical monitoring, compensation, and financial recovery for the short-term, long-term, and chronic injuries, financial losses, expenses and intangible losses suffered by the Plaintiffs (all present and former players in the NFL) and their spouses as a result of the NFL’s misconduct.

The action is necessary, because of the debilitating and permanent effects of head injuries and concussions that have afflicted present and former professional football players in the NFL. For close to one hundred years, evidence has linked concussions to long-term neurological problems. For decades, specialists in brain trauma have warned about the risks of permanent brain damage from repetitive concussions. The NFL, as the organizer, marketer, and face of the most popular sport in the United States, in which head trauma is a regular occurrence, was aware of these risks but deliberately ignored the risks associated with concussions and actively concealed them.

In or around 1994 or earlier, the NFL voluntarily inserted itself into the scientific research, private discussions, and public discussions concerning the relationship between concussions and impairment of the brain. In doing so, the NFL intentionally and fraudulently mislead its active players, its former players, and all people who reasonably rely upon the NFL’s expertise about its own sport, regarding the short-term and long-term risks posed by concussions and head trauma. Rather than warn its players that they risked permanent brain injury if they returned to play too soon after sustaining a concussion, the NFL actively deceived players, resulting in the players’ belief that concussions did not present serious, life-altering risks.

The NFL, through its own initiative and voluntary undertaking, created the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee (the “MTBI Committee”) in 1994, and the MTBI was purportedly created to research and ameliorate the impact of concussions on NFL players.

Notwithstanding this purported purpose, and despite clear medical evidence that on-field concussions led directly to brain injuries with tragic results for NFL players, the NFL failed to inform its players and former players of the true risks associated with such head trauma. Even worse, the NFL purposefully misrepresented and/or concealed medical evidence on that issue.

Although athletes who suffered brain trauma in other professional sports were restricted from playing full games or even seasons, NFL players who had similar trauma were regularly returned to play.

The NFL’s active and purposeful concealment and misrepresentation of the severe neurological risks of multiple concussions exposed players to dangers they could have avoided had the League provided them with truthful and accurate information.

If you are a former player who would like to participate in this lawsuit, please fill out the questionnaire below. Once you submit your questionnaire, we will send you a packet by U.S. Mail with all relevant paperwork and a return envelope.

This NFL lawsuit is completely separate and distinct from any workers compensation claims, and players have a right to file both claims.


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Address

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Marital Status

Spouse's Name

Please identify each NFL team with which you were employed and the dates when you were employed by each team.

Please identify each position you played while employed by an NFL team and the dates you played the position identified.

Have you ever sustained or experienced a concussion or concussion-like symptoms during practices, workouts, and/or games while employed by any NFL team?

Have you ever seen a physician or medical professional about any concussion, concussion-like symptom, persistent headaches, dizziness, and/or inability to concentrate and/or any other issue that you believe is related to concussions, concussion-like sympt

If the answer is yes, please identify the physician(s) and/or medical professional(s) you have seen about any concussion, concussion-like symptom, persistent headaches, dizziness, and/or inability to concentrate. Hospital/Facility Name, State, Zip, Phone

Have you ever been hospitalized in connection with a concussion, concussion-like symptom, persistent headache, dizziness, and/or inability to concentrate?

If the answer is yes, please identify the hospital or clinic in which you received treatment and the approximate year and month when the treatment took place. Hospital/Facility Name, State, Zip, Phone

Please choose Yes below to of any current issues, concerns and/or problems you believe are in any way related to concussions, concussion-like symptoms, and/or head trauma you sustained while playing for any NFL team.








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