Law and Wellness

After Dave Duerson took his life last year, an autopsy revealed the former Chicago Bears safety suffered from a neurodegenerative disease resulting fromrepeated head trauma.Duerson's tragic story isn't the only instance of a professional athlete with a history of brain injury committing suicide. But drawing a direct line of liability between these cases and the inevitable head trauma suffered during his career is …

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