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Report: Greg Brooks Jr. Is Suing LSU & Our Lady of the Lake For Negligence

by Staff Reporter

October 11, 202485 Comments

Matt Pendleton-USA TODAY Sports

Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports is reporting that former LSU defensive back Greg Brooks Jr. is suing the school and its health partner Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, for negligence relating to his medical condition from last year.

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The 13-page lawsuit, filed in August in East Baton Rouge Parish and obtained on Thursday by Yahoo Sports, unearths unreported details of the timeline of events last year related to Brooks’ unexpected turn of events — from a star safety in the SEC with NFL aspirations to a now “permanently disabled” man who still, a year after surgery, cannot walk.

The suit details the start of Brooks’ symptoms while at football practice last August to his emergency brain surgery in September — a story that gripped the country last year. He participated in two football games before an MRI scan discovered the brain tumor.

In the legal filing, Brooks accuses the coaching staff of encouraging him to practice and play while ill by threatening his starting position, and he levies claims against team trainers for not appropriately diagnosing his condition and refusing, for weeks, to recommend him to a neurological specialist.

In the most serious accusations, Brooks alleges that he was left with “catastrophic neurological injuries” and is “permanently disabled” from the brain surgery performed by Brandon Gaynor, a surgeon at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge. During the surgery, Brooks says he suffered “multiple strokes” from “acts of malpractice.” Those alleged acts are being addressed in a medical review of malpractice claims that the family has filed. Read more.

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CanebreakCajun•13 months

How could coaches or trainers possibly be expected to diagnose a brain tumor? He said he was dizzy at practice and was assessed with vertigo. The staff gave 2 weeks to resolve, it didn't, they sent him for an MRI. There is zero liability on the staff. He may have an issue with the surgeon, but from an LSU staff position, I'm not sure what else you expect. Is the staff supposed to send every player for an MRI when they say they have vertigo or are dizzy after summer practice?

spslayto•13 months

Motion for summary judgment will be incoming

CanebreakCajun•13 months

MSJ coming, yup.

tenderfoot tigah•13 months

Exactly

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225Tyga•13 months

Sad. Doctors tried to do their best and this happens. The guy is operating on a brain of course there are risks. What would have happened if he chose not to operate? This can set a dangerous precedent for surgeons to not operate out of fear of lawsuits

jrobic4•13 months

"Nah mane, dey shoulda split his wig befo knowin' it a tumor!"

Admittedly, I don't know the details. However, Greg went from a hero to Persona non Grata. He's brain damaged, so looks like a money grab from the family.
Short of maybe running a CT earlier, what else could they have done? Whoever the injury attorney is should be banned from LSU's campus.

bass•13 months

For one, never get a brain tumor removed in Baton Rouge at OLOL. They aren’t exactly the experts in that arena.

Tigers4Lyfe•13 months

This is why doctors have malpractice insurance.

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jrobic4•13 months

If Greg weren't playing for LSU, and was just a college kid, he'd probably be dead from that tumor...

LSU316•13 months

This is the hard truth that a lot of blowhards here know is true but won’t admit because it’s easy to virtue signal on the internet.

Aussietigerfan•13 months

It’s hard to believe the coaches were threatening his starting position with Major Burns standing as backup

Tigers4Lyfe•13 months

If anything, because Burns was behind him, is an exact reason to threaten him to stay in there.

And I'm not saying that happened or didn't happen.

Just playing devil's advocate to your comment.

Aussietigerfan•13 months

I can’t argue that

biglego•13 months

Even right now we’d be better off with Brooks back there

Privateer 2007•13 months

I'm sorry he's had this happen to him. But, addressing such issues is not the training staffs job. He had health insurance, it was on him to see a Dr.

LuckyTiger57•13 months

This is a sad way for someone to treat LSU for taking care of the medical needs for a very risky procedure. With surgery there are no guarantees of 100% success and it is a risk that they had to know going in was a high risk. Unless they can proove it was malpractice, it’s a reach to sue LSU and the doctors imo.

Tigers4Lyfe•13 months

His payday in the NFL is gone. Makes perfect sense; unfortunately.

Furious•13 months

Unfortunate all the way around.

Havoc•13 months

Feel for the guy but damn it’s a brain tumor, I’m sure there’s no thought that athletic trainers are able to diagnose that. The Med Mal stuff is for the experts to determine.

burke985•13 months

Well there goes the heart felt warm story

saturncube21•13 months

Prayers for GB3

Willie Stroker•13 months

The threat is losing a starting position in a lawn game? frick that. Reality is you win it back when you get healthy. You have to put your health first.

Spelt it rong•13 months

Awful. I hope he's the product of a miracle and comes out the other side.. Just gut wrenching

Koolazzkat•13 months

“What do you call 5000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?”

The Governor•13 months

A good start?

LSU Bayou Jim•13 months

When bad things happen to people one of the first reactions is to try to assign blame. But more often than not, there is no one to blame. Bad stuff happens even to good people.

Homesick Tiger•13 months

My dad had two brain tumor surgeries at MD Anderson and died a day before a scheduled third operation. We didn't sue anybody. Just saying.

derrick0356•13 months

That was your choice.

NatalbanyTigerFan•13 months

I had a ping pong ball sized tumor removed at OLOL in 2015. Still kicking.

bluebuck1•13 months

We pray that he becomes cured of his tumor and make a full recovery. All of us have had a family member develop cancer. We empathize and are sensitive to the situation. LSU has never caused a brain tumor. No tumor has ever grown large instantaneously and diagnosed instantaneously. No tumor, no surgery, no complication related to the tumor or surgery. I have family that are lawyers. But, where do we draw the legal ethical lines. Look at how Georgia treated the paralyzed kid from Southern University. Lawsuit of not, LSU would do the same. Then, why sue?

Lutcher Lad•13 months

Prayers for this young man and his family for the devestation that has plagued him and has all but eliminated his dreams of playing in the NFL.
I hope that LSU has gone above and beyond to help this young man with this terrible situation. Surely, he cannot expect LSU to give him the amount of cash that he would have made in the NFL.

DrSteveBrule•13 months

Unfortunate all the way around, but it's hard to be anything but neutral in this situation. I doubt that this many adults mishandled the situation though and I think it's just a case of Greg unfortunately having an extremely serious medical problem with a very low chance of a good outcome regardless of what was done.

Big Gorilla•13 months

This just got strange. Not sure how coaches would have any idea he had something serious. I don’t agree with this but he will almost certainly win.

RightWingTiger•13 months

You mean “He will almost certainly settle out of court for MILLIONS!!”

Gaspergou202•13 months

3 Thoughts:
1-Heartbroken for the boy, and will continue to pray for him.
2- I don’t know what happened on the field or hospital.
3-Many to most, but not all, malpractice lawsuits are money grabs. I hope this is not one, because the kid is in a bad way and could use the money. But right is right, and wrong is wrong.

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