David Givens Suing The Titans For $25 Million Dollars

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  1. Riverman

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    Very few malpractice/negligence cases are not high dollar extortion in my experience.
     
  2. titan_fan_4ever

    titan_fan_4ever Titans Rule

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    maybe not ....i thought so too in the beginning. but now its on tenn.com which means its got some credibility.
     
  3. NewsGrabber

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    Thoughts on Givens' suit against the Titans

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    <BR>Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky</em>
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    <BR>David Givens says the Titans encouraged him to play despite a knee condition that could not withstand NFL competition, according to a $25 million lawsuit he has filed against the team.
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    <BR><a href="http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179526" target="_blank">Here's the link</a> to News Channel 5's story and <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090923/SPORTS01/909230396/Former+Titan+David+Givens+sues+team+for++25+million" target="_blank">here&rsquo;s the link</a> to The Tennessean's piece.
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    <BR>The newspaper report includes this from Brad Blank, who represented Givens when he played:
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    <p style="text-align: left;">"The issue is not about money.</p>
    <p style="text-align: left;">"It's emotional and physical, and the idea that his career was cut short. ... The issue is what could have been done better and was there some kind of malpractice or negligence.</p>
    <p style="text-align: left;">"His knee looks awful. Emotionally, in terms of his upbeat nature. &hellip; He is also not the happy-go-lucky, affable guy I used to know."</p></blockquote>I am saddened to learn that Givens is still having a hard time. I got to know him only a little bit at the start of his short time with the team.
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    <BR>In attempts to check in on him after the injury and subsequent surgeries, we always heard that he was not in a good frame of mind, having a difficult time with things, withdrawn, downcast. Initially, those reports also said he was determined to resurface in the league, though all indications were that his knee simply wouldn&rsquo;t allow it.
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    <BR>It&rsquo;s a terribly unfortunate element of the league, the way a serious injury takes a guy from life as a star playing in front of 60,000 every week to a patient rehabilitating around a handful of people.
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    <BR>The end of football is hard on players -- the divorce rates, the financial troubles and the lifestyle adjustment have been well documented. Put a serious injury and a sudden ending into the formula and the change is drastic, the potential for emotional difficulties heightened.
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    <BR>The Titans haven&rsquo;t commented on the case. But the accusations from Givens pertaining to an examination by Dr. Tomas Byrd, &ldquo;an independent orthopedic surgeon who checked [Givens] before he signed a five-year contract in March 2006,&rdquo; are disturbing.
    <BR><blockquote>The suit claims that after Byrd examined Givens, he forwarded the results to the Titans and their training staff. It further alleges that after the pathological defect in the structure of his left knee was discovered, Givens was not made aware of the problem as he should have been.
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    <BR>It says that he learned of the condition only after reviewing his medical file for the first time in February 2009. He got the file as part of a still-unsettled arbitration with the Titans through the NFL Players Association collective bargaining agreement.</blockquote>So the first question that needs to be answered from the team&rsquo;s side of things is why would they have given a receiver with a knee defect a five-year, $24 million contract that included $8 million in bonuses in the first two years?
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    <BR>Nick Beres, the Nashville TV reporter who broke the story, said on <a href="http://1045thezone.com/sectional.asp?id=23524" target="_blank">The Wake Up Zone</a> in Nashville Wednesday morning that the timing of the physical is unclear and that it could have come after Givens was already under contract.
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    <BR>(Standard disclosure: I'm a part of that radio show three times a week.)

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  4. nickmsmith

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    I think he means that it's BS that he's suing,
    not questioning that he is trying or not.
     
  5. GoTitans3801

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    There are far too many holes in this suit for it to really go anywhere. As Riverman said, the real goal could be getting at the doctor, but they could also be trying to get a quick settlement out of the Team. It's also very possible that he does feel that they did something that cost him his career and wants to get it out in public. However, it's VERY unlikely that this suit will get him money from the Titans.

    He should be pretty happy with the money that he did get from us. We paid well, despite knowing of the risks.
     
  6. JCBRAVE

    JCBRAVE goTitans 2019 Survivor Champion

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    It's true. Givens was not informed. I can't go into detail because I told Bud I wouldn't.
     
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