A former Lions player who claims to suffer from memory loss is heading a new class-action lawsuit against the NFL with hopes of providing players with more medical assistance if they are diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy during their lifetime.
The suit filed by Tracy Scroggins, a linebacker and defensive end for the Lions from 1992-2001, charges the NFL with racketeering after concealing the relationship between repeated head trauma and CTE, a degenerative brain disease, among other claims.
Filed last Friday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the lawsuit came one day after am investigative story in The New York Times claimed NFL officials omitted more than 100 diagnosed concussions from their research from 1996-2001, which raises questions about the league’s findings as they relate to neurological disorders.