Litigation & Arbitration,
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Nov. 21, 2022
Defense rests in NCAA wrongful death trial over CTE
“There’s a difference between saying there’s an association and there’s a causal effect. Those are critically different,” sports neurologist Dr. Vernon Williams testified for the NCAA, fighting a lawsuit by the widow of a USC linebacker who says his death from a heart attack at 49 was caused by brain injuries from head blows while playing football.
A sports neurologist, the last witness in a wrongful death trial against the NCAA, testified for the defense Friday, saying the link between football and traumatic brain injuries is far from conclusive.
“There are hypotheses about what kind of features may be present in an individual who goes on to be found to have some of these [neurological] changes,” Dr. Vernon Williams of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center told a Los Angeles Superior Court j...
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