February 20, 2025
The Third Circuit denied the families of 18 late NFL players access to funds under the league's historic concussion settlement Thursday, saying benefits can only be given to players diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy after death.
January 17, 2025
Family members of several late NFL players asked the Third Circuit on Friday to grant them national concussion settlement benefits that were denied for a lack of an eligible chronic traumatic encephalopathy diagnosis, arguing the requirement for a neurological exam on exhumed bodies was not made clear as part of the settlement notice.
November 21, 2024
The National Football League has paid more than $1.3 billion to settle claims from former professional athletes who suffered neurological damage due to concussions sustained while playing, with 4% of that earmarked for their attorneys, according to a report by the court appointed special master and claim administrator for the multidistrict litigation.
May 28, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday granted Seeger Weiss LLP's latest fee request for close to $1.9 million in attorney fees and costs for its ongoing work implementing an agreement settling former National Football League players' concussion-linked disability claims.
April 30, 2024
Goldberg Persky & White PC should not receive a cut of legal fees for its unsuccessful efforts to receive a settlement that another law firm later secured for a former National Football League player related to concussion-linked disability claims, a special master has said.
March 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has rejected objections from a law firm and its principal and affirmed a special masters' determination that the attorney be censured for engaging in "questionable behavior" while trying to secure monetary awards for clients from the NFL players' concussion injury litigation settlement.
September 06, 2023
An Atlanta law firm representing an NFL player who eventually replaced it with another firm is entitled to half the original contingency fee agreed to from the outset of the litigation, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.
August 01, 2023
A California firm that formerly represented a plaintiff in the NFL's concussion litigation will be shut out of receiving legal fees from a settlement with the league after a Pennsylvania federal judge decided Friday to back a federal magistrate judge's finding that the firm had no reasonable claim to funds.
April 19, 2022
Blocking Mitnick Law Firm's access to settlement money disbursed from the NFL concussion litigation would impede the firm's ability to process the payments and distribute awards to its clients, according to a recent filing in a federal lawsuit seeking to stop Mitnick from receiving fees from the litigation.
April 14, 2022
Litigation funder Balanced Bridge Funding LLC says Mitnick Law Office owes it more than $3 million in attorney fees from the NFL concussion settlement and asked a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday to freeze any additional fees likely to be paid out following the removal of controversial race norms in the settlement.