Almost 300 brain-injured ex-rugby players filed a class action at London’s High Court for damages.
The plaintiffs blame the sport for causing brain injuries after repeated blows to the head The claim is being brought against World Rugby and the RFU and WRU Many former players have spoken about how traumatic injuries changed their lives .
A group of 295 former professional rugby players will take the next step in their compensation claim against the game’s governing body at London’s High Court on Friday.
The former stars all suffer from various irreversible neurological injuries, including early onset dementia and probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and believe their brain injuries were caused by playing rugby.
They claim that they did not know that participating in sports would cause such problems.
On Friday, the players’ lawyers will discuss several motions, mainly that their compensation claims be treated as one class action rather than hundreds of individual claims.
The plaintiffs also submitted more than 5,000 pages of supporting patient charts, case summaries and other documents. England World Cup winner Steve Thompson is one group taking rugby and the authorities to court .
England World Cup winner Steve Thompson is one group taking rugby and the authorities to court The action is brought against World Rugby,
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“The plaintiffs allege that the defendants were negligent in failing to take reasonable steps to protect the players from permanent injury caused by repeated concussions and concussion-related concussions,”
said Richard Boardman of Rylands Garth, a firm representing the former players. “Many players now suffer from various irreversible neurological injuries.
We see the same troubling symptoms in many cases in all three contact sports. These symptoms include chronic depression, aggression, significant memory loss,
urinary incontinence, drug and alcohol addiction, and in some cases, suicide attempts. – The players we represent love the games they played.
Among the carriers are three players
from the winning teams of the World Cup
and 14 players from the English national
team. +4 See the gallery Among the
carriers are three players from the
winning teams of the World Cup and 14
players from the English national team.
Our goal is to challenge the current
understanding of the sport’s governing
bodies to reach a point where they accept
the link between repetitive impacts and
permanent neurological injury and take
action to protect players and support
those injured.”
At the same time, Gloucesterand#039;
England winger Jack Singleton to France
after arriving in Toulon to sign injury
protection.
Simon Raiwalui, who coached Fiji to the
quarter-finals at this year’s World Cup
where they beat England, has joined
World Rugby.
Raiwalui has been appointed as the
sport’s High Performance Pathways
board and head of player development
“to support its core mission of
strengthening the competitiveness of
international rugby as the sport prepares
for a new era of opportunity and growth”.
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