March 12, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday that a final judgment entered against a retired NFL player in a loan dispute with a litigation funder superseded a prior contempt order entered over his failure to set aside $800,000 worth of concussion settlement proceeds at issue in the lending battle.
March 09, 2020
An ailing, retired NFL player says that if litigation funder Thrivest wants the $800,000 it has been hounding him over for months, it should go get the money itself, telling a Philadelphia federal court that Thrivest knows exactly how he spent the $1.1 million concussion settlement award tied to the loan.
January 02, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge ordered former NFL player Toby L. Wright on Thursday to pay over $660,000 plus interest to litigation funder Thrivest, even though the company says his bank balance suggests he has spent nearly all of his $1.1 million concussion award.
November 01, 2019
Thrivest wants the U.S. Marshals to haul in and lock up two retired NFL players who allegedly owe the litigation funder millions from loans tied to the league's landmark concussion settlement, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge that a recent contempt finding and asset freeze have accomplished nothing.
October 22, 2019
A former NFL player was held in contempt and had his bank accounts frozen by a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday for failing to put up $800,000 in a dispute with litigation funder Thrivest over the football league's concussion settlement.
September 23, 2019
Litigation funder Thrivest claims the federal judge overseeing the concussion settlement is ignoring a Third Circuit ruling that overturned her decision to void hundreds of loans, and in a highly unusual move, the funder has asked the appellate court to step in and force her hand.
August 13, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday agreed to force an ex-National Football League player to put a portion of his $1.9 million concussion settlement on ice while an arbitrator resolves a dispute over his responsibility to pay back advances he allegedly took on the payout.
June 06, 2019
A former National Football League player must go to arbitration over his effort to avoid paying a litigation funder part of his $1.9 million award from the league's concussion settlement, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday.
May 23, 2019
Former NFL player Toby Wright asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday to toss his agreement with Thrivest Specialty Funding LLC, arguing that both the judge and the Third Circuit had said such agreements assigning part of NFL players' concussion-related settlements to third-party funders were void.