The Supreme Court of Minnesota has ruled that a former National Football League player's workers' compensation claim for dementia failed on statute of limitations grounds. (Photo: Shutterstock)
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has ruled that a former NFL player's workers' compensation claim for dementia failed on statute of limitations grounds.
|NFL career
Alapati Noga, who was born in September 1965 in American Samoa and moved to Hawaii in 1969, began playing football seriously in the ninth grade and played the position of defensive lineman throughout high school. He suffered at that time from what he called "headaches" because of his "violent" head-first style of playing. Throughout college, Noga continued playing as a defensive lineman with the same head-first style of play.
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