[dabigv13]

There aren't college and high school sponsored MMA fighters though.

That being said, courts in the US don't seem to be very friendly to plaintiffs trying to sue. Several lawsuits from people who died young, whether from suicide or some sort of accident, that autopsy showed CTE and played football have been dismissed given difficulty associating the football history with the CTE, and the CTE with whatever killed them.

The NCAA settled a CTE case in 2018 that went to trial, though the more recent cases I have seen the NCAA has won.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ncaa-not-l...022-11-23/

On that same case
https://theathletic.com/3669382/2022/10/...wsuit-usc/

This was eyebrow raising....

In fact, the NCAA alleged in seeking to block the BU CTE report from entering evidence, that the brain bank took out references to cocaine use at the Gee’s family request.

“Finally, the Court should be aware that BU modified its own report at Plaintiff’s request before issuing a final report by removing its finding that the brain infarcts may have been related to Gee’s known cocaine use,” the NCAA charged. Infarcts are dead tissue.

BU did not reply to comment.

BU is pretty much where most of the CTE research has taken place.

A difficult thing to study but I don't think the science is solid enough for plaintiffs to win these cases.

[dabigv13]

There aren't college and high school sponsored MMA fighters though.

That being said, courts in the US don't seem to be very friendly to plaintiffs trying to sue. Several lawsuits from people who died young, whether from suicide or some sort of accident, that autopsy showed CTE and played football have been dismissed given difficulty associating the football history with the CTE, and the CTE with whatever killed them.

The NCAA settled a CTE case in 2018 that went to trial, though the more recent cases I have seen the NCAA has won.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ncaa-not-l...022-11-23/

On that same case
https://theathletic.com/3669382/2022/10/...wsuit-usc/

This was eyebrow raising....

In fact, the NCAA alleged in seeking to block the BU CTE report from entering evidence, that the brain bank took out references to cocaine use at the Gee’s family request.

“Finally, the Court should be aware that BU modified its own report at Plaintiff’s request before issuing a final report by removing its finding that the brain infarcts may have been related to Gee’s known cocaine use,” the NCAA charged. Infarcts are dead tissue.

BU did not reply to comment.

BU is pretty much where most of the CTE research has taken place.

A difficult thing to study but I don't think the science is solid enough for plaintiffs to win these cases.