Retired players file lawsuit against nflpa

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Every impact to the brain is dangerous. Both concussive and subconcussive events cause permanent brain damage. During practice and games, an NFL player can sustain close to one thousand or more hits to the head in one season without any documented incapacitating concussion.

Such repeated blows result in permanently-impaired brain function. This six foot one, two hundred and fifty-five pound man, four time Super Bowl champion, and hall of fame inductee, died at the early age of fifty due to a heart attack.

Iron Mike was plagued with cognitive ailments stemming from his fifteen season campaign. Iron Mike, still to this day, is considered to be one of the best NFL players of all time, but his last few years were tormented by amnesia, dementia, depression, and acute bone and muscle pain.

Mike Webster had applied for disability benefits under the Plan, however, was denied the highest level of benefits available to former NFL athletes. The retirement board of the Plan intentionally and fraudulently concealed the Plan and summary plan description from Andre Royal. Andre Royal never had a copy of the Plan when he originally applied for his disability benefits in , and even after repeated requests for the Plan, he was never provided the correct Plan the Board based their final denial off of.

Plaintiff also suffers from debilitating injuries stemming from the brain damage he sustained while being an active playing in the NFL.

Royal, at the time of filing his initial application for benefits, and now, could not and did not understand there was a different level of disability benefits he absolutely qualified for — Active Football Total and Permanent Disability. Just three years into his professional career, and the first year in his four year contract with the Saints, Royal began suffering from seizures, severe headaches, migraines, confusion, loss of awareness, incontinence, inability to concentrate, memory loss, insomnia, mood swings, several bitten tongues from seizures, emotional outburst, dizziness, waking up in different rooms from seizure and being unaware of what happened, nightmares, whole body shaking, difficulty finding words and loss of balance; all of which were reported to medical personnel and team doctors.

The problems worsened over the next two years while Andre Royal played for the Indianapolis Colts. The problems got so bad, Royal was forced into retirement two years into his four year contract, ending his professional career in the year Royal continued all of those devastating conditions through his retirement and to this very day. By John Garcia Jr. By Shawn Childs. By Kyle Wood. By Rohan Nadkarni.

By Dan Lyons. By Associated Press. By Jennifer Piacenti.