Sports brain-injury law is needed, Pittsburgh attorney says

February 5, 2016September 8, 2017
by Goldberg, Persky and White, P.C. Attorneys at Law

From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:

â€œLeagues are wanting it to be a concussion case, a concussion issue,â€ Mr. Luckasevic said Thursday at a Sports Concussion Litigation session at Duquesne Universityâ€™s law school. â€œAnd get you to believe, and parents to believe, that this is all about one concussion. Itâ€™s not about one concussion, itâ€™s about repeated trauma.â€

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