Following in the footsteps of many onetime NFL players, a group of former NHL players are in the process of suing the league for failing to protect them from and educate them about the dangers of head trauma.
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NHL Fighting Against Providing Medical Records of Former Players
Tuesday, May 19
Rick Westhead of TSN has more on the lawsuit, first filed in 2013:
The National Hockey League says it would cost $13.5 million to produce the medical records for the 5,967 players who have played in the NHL since 1967 and suffered brain injuries.
The NHL says that the extraordinary cost, combined with former players' right to privacy, should be grounds to deny a request to order the league to turn medical records over to 60 former players who are suing the league. A group of 60 former NHL players including Joe Murphy, Bernie Nicholls and Gary Leeman charge that the NHL did not do enough to protect them from head injuries before it created a committee to study head trauma in 1997.
The NHL's suit is not yet being treated as a class-action lawsuit, though if it is given that designat ...
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