- Leading brain injury lawyer warns of impact to governing bodies
- Payouts could be six-figure sums and legal action ‘to take years’
Rugby union authorities are likely to be forced into immediate safety measures to reduce the risk of lawsuits from current and future players, a leading brain injury lawyer has said.
The lawsuit that several former rugby players with dementia are poised to bring against World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union could take years to resolve, Ipek Tugcu of Bolt Burdon Kemp said, warning that the impact on the governing bodies, if found guilty of a breach of their duty of care, would be “astronomical”.
