NCAA Concussion Suits Merger Sought Even With Differences
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Ex-football players’ head-trauma lawsuits against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, unlike National Football League cases consolidated by federal judges and later settled for $765 million, defy easy grouping.
Former student athletes have filed 10 class-action suits -- two of them this week -- accusing the NCAA of failing to protect them from concussions and, in the first of the cases, seeking to represent all current and former students who participated in contact sports. One case includes two football helmet makers as defendants.