The latest blog post from Frank Azar:
This past April, Frank Azar and his team at Franklin D. Azar & Associates won a huge case against prominent football helmet manufacturer Riddell Sports Inc. This case is significant because it could present opportunities for individuals injured over the past few decades to receive compensation for their medical expenses and injuries. Frank Azar, a Trinidad native, served as co-counsel on the case with Denver based attorney Randy Barnhart.
Franklin D. Azar & Associates became involved in the suit against Riddell after Rhett Ridolfi, a student on the Trinidad High School football team, suffered serious head trauma during a football drill, which resulted in total paralysis of his left side. A jury in Las Animas County District Court decided that Riddell was accountable for a percentage of the 11.5 million restitution Ridolfi will receive.
A representative from Riddell said the company plans to appeal on the grounds that the court excluded a testimony by a defense expert. This means Rhett Ridolfi is not likely to see any sort of compensation from Riddell for quite sometime, and the exact number they owe him is not yet worked out.
In response to the case, Frank Azar stated that because Riddell failed to adequately warn about the dangers of concussions while wearing their helmets, this verdict could affect “thousands of pending individual cases.” Azar further stated, “Riddell set this phony-baloney standard about concussion risk…If they had told the truth, ‘You have a 50 percent change of getting a concussion with this helmet,’ what mother or father would let their kid play football in a Riddell helmet? And you can still buy this helmet today.”
This case is particularly poignant because Riddell is the official helmet supplier to the NFL (National Football League), and countless numbers of retired players have sustained life-altering brain injuries while playing football in Riddell helmets that they are steal dealing with today.
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