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Former West Coast defender Brad Sheppard is suing the AFL , the Eagles, and two of the club’s doctors for medical negligence — after he was left with long-term concussion symptoms following his decorated football career. In what could become another watershed legal challenge surrounding the league’s treatment of brain injuries, the 216-game defender has hired a law firm specialising in personal injury and medical negligence to launch a case in WA’s Supreme Court.
He was the team physician at the Eagles for more than a decade and oversaw the club during the 2018 premiership victory. Sheppard had separate concussions that season against Carlton in round 12 and Fremantle in round 22 and was left with lingering issues. He pulled the pin on his AFL career in 2021 due to medical advice at just 30. In March 2023, he told the ABC how those concussions had impacted him immediately and for months afterwards. “That shook me for six months,” he said.
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