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The football trainer during that incident was also the trainer during a death of a UCF football player in a previous incident.

http://yerridlaw.com/wrongful-death/ted-agu/

At the time of Agu’s collapse, he was under the supervision of Cal Berkeley’s head athletic trainer for football, Robert Jackson. Ironically, this is the very same Robert Jackson who, prior to becoming employed by Cal Berkeley, was involved in a remarkably similar death of another college football player. In 2008, Robert Jackson was the supervising athletic trainer responsible for the welfare of Ereck Plancher, a 19 year old wide receiver for the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Like Agu, Plancher also carried the sickle cell trait and during pre-season conditioning drills, he experienced nearly identical symptoms of distress as he sickled, struggled, and collapsed while under the supervision of Jackson. As with Agu, trainer Jackson failed to intervene and allowed a struggling Plancher to continue the excessively difficult and punishing drill that directly resulted in Plancher’s death. In 2011, Plancher’s family, represented by Steve Yerrid, Jeff Murphy, J.D. Dowell, and David Dickey, took the case to a three week trial against UCF Athletics Association, Inc., and obtained a jury verdict and final judgment (including costs, fees and interest awarded by the Court) that is now almost $15 million. Despite the fact that UCF Athletics Association had $21 million in liability insurance to pay this judgment, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that “sovereign immunity” limited the liability of the Athletics Association and its insurance company to $200,000. The Plancher family has appealed that ruling and the matter is currently pending before the Florida Supreme Court.

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[fullmetal]

The football trainer during that incident was also the trainer during a death of a UCF football player in a previous incident.

http://yerridlaw.com/wrongful-death/ted-agu/

At the time of Agu’s collapse, he was under the supervision of Cal Berkeley’s head athletic trainer for football, Robert Jackson. Ironically, this is the very same Robert Jackson who, prior to becoming employed by Cal Berkeley, was involved in a remarkably similar death of another college football player. In 2008, Robert Jackson was the supervising athletic trainer responsible for the welfare of Ereck Plancher, a 19 year old wide receiver for the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Like Agu, Plancher also carried the sickle cell trait and during pre-season conditioning drills, he experienced nearly identical symptoms of distress as he sickled, struggled, and collapsed while under the supervision of Jackson. As with Agu, trainer Jackson failed to intervene and allowed a struggling Plancher to continue the excessively difficult and punishing drill that directly resulted in Plancher’s death. In 2011, Plancher’s family, represented by Steve Yerrid, Jeff Murphy, J.D. Dowell, and David Dickey, took the case to a three week trial against UCF Athletics Association, Inc., and obtained a jury verdict and final judgment (including costs, fees and interest awarded by the Court) that is now almost $15 million. Despite the fact that UCF Athletics Association had $21 million in liability insurance to pay this judgment, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that “sovereign immunity” limited the liability of the Athletics Association and its insurance company to $200,000. The Plancher family has appealed that ruling and the matter is currently pending before the Florida Supreme Court.

EDIT: Oops, filled in the rest of the paragraph.