Ongoing Litigation and Settlements Concerning Sports-Related Long- term Brain Injury Claims

Presenter Information

Geoffrey Rapp, University of Toledo College of Law

Location

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Start Date

20-3-2015 2:45 PM

End Date

20-3-2015 3:15 PM

Description

This presentation will provide audience members an understanding of basic legal claims being advanced in connection with brain injury tort claims arising from sports participation and an understanding of challenges associated with litigation of tort claims at a time of scientific uncertainty. Will review challenges to proposed settlements of aggregate claims concerning NCAA and NFL liability, and substantive issues which have arisen in individual lawsuits.

Speaker Information

Geoffrey Rapp is Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law & Values at the University of Toledo College of Law. He joined the faculty at Toledo in 2004 and has also taught at the University of Utah, Michigan State, and Wayne State. Professor Rapp teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, torts, and the sports industry. His recent papers include publications in the North Carolina Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, BYU Law Review, and the Boston University Law Review. Professor Rapp has been frequently interviewed and quoted by local, national, and international media, including National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, CBS Sports, The New York Times, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The LA Times, The New York Post, Business Week, Forbes, The Guardian (UK), The Toronto Star, Toronto’s National Post, BBC Radio, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Scout.com, The Toledo Blade, and The Washington Times. He has also written op-eds and columns for USA Today, The Washington Post, and cnn.com. Before entering law teaching, he clerked for Judge Cornelia Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and worked in private practice.