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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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PortCityTiger82•19 months

Yeah it sucks but that’s the nature of the beast with brain surgery. There are no guarantees and there is always a risk no matter how seemingly easy or how smoothly the surgery goes. Always a shark out there looking to make a payday off of someone else’s misfortune.

CDawson•19 months

At the end of the day, it’s always about the $.

NorthSider72•19 months

"You're sick and we are gonna make somebody pay".
Wie, Cheetum, and Howe, Attorneys at Law.

jimbo88•19 months

"Do we cheat 'em..and how!"...haha the car talk bros.

Gaspergou202•19 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.

75503Tiger•19 months

So many stereotypes types are confirmed when reading the Brooks Sr story that this lawsuit was a foregone conclusion. frick them for continuing to sue anyone who tried to help them,.

Spankum•19 months

Greg himself likely has nothing to do with this….frick his greedy assed family and their slimy attorneys.

tigerinridgeland•19 months

Anyone know if there was a medical review panel as to the medmal claims, if so, the result?

biglego•19 months

It literally says the claims are under review now

idoubleu•19 months

We do understand that doctors are human. Though experts, they can’t fix or cure everything.

P.S.
I can’t imagine my brain reading this sad story about Greg Brooks, all leading to me typing comments abiut Dr. Faucci or Kamala Harris.

Know that your device is programmed to show you what you want to believe. Either way you want to believe it. It’ll feed you 24/7.

LSU Bayou Jim•19 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.

LSU82Cajun•19 months

Well there goes his legacy. Gotta be the VICTIM.

Jamey21•19 months

Its uncanny how you believe the story about losing a starting position if he doesn't play. You do know thats only his side fo the story which could be totally bogus. Quit believing everything you read by the person actually doing the sueing. Lets wait and hear both side before believing anything. JeZZZZ

Doctor K•19 months

In a law suit the Atty. (Scum by professional choice) have to make the other side look as bad as possible. Brooks is a competitor he was begging to be on the field no one had to force anything on him. There was no threats, best man plays, had he been able to come back he would have been on the field!

Rabbs and QStick•19 months

Well this is a coach who's negligence got a kid killed before, so it's kind of easy to believe.

NatalbanyTigerFan•19 months

Anyone know who his doctors were at OLOL? I also had a brain tumor removed there in 2015.

Chalkywhite84•19 months

Brandon gaynor

Koolazzkat•19 months

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

The Governor•19 months

A good start?

Privateer 2007•19 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.

bluebuck1•19 months

Try investing $1,000,000 in time, money and sweat equity into yourself, to help others, before earning a nickel and you will have a different appreciation of what doctors do.

Timeoday•19 months

I will not ever appreciate Dr. Fauci or any Doctor that pushes the Covid vaccine.

Herodijontiger•19 months

This exactly 100%

SaturatedPhat•19 months

It’s not a vaccine.

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bluebuck1•19 months

The doctor may have been so caring that he or she did not want to take the chance of spreading airborne germs from the last patient’s room, despite washing their hands or their hand shake was refused by the last 2 patients, before seeing you.

bluebuck1•19 months

Cajunmud, sound like you hate doctors. I wake up and look at two doctors every day. Try graduating in the top 5% of your high school and college classes to get into medical school. Then, accumulate $400,000 in debt to get your MD degree, primarily to help people. Then, do a residency to specialize and work more hours in 5 years than a teacher does in 30 years, only to be judge by a pre-COVID handshake.

Timeoday•19 months

One only has to look around to see the exponential growth in a particular industry to know whatever they have been doing is not working.

Herodijontiger•19 months

Have not seen a doctor in 25 years. The only one in my family between Father, 2 siblings, mother-in-law 1 deceased brother- in-law everyone of them are on more than one drug and all have had at least 1-2 surgeries. Very sad the way the medical industry is no longer about health and wellness but about pushing drugs and operations.

cajunmud•19 months

You can help others for free. You don't have to go a dime into debt to help others. Most doctors (males for sure) become doctors for the status and the money (maybe the pussy that comes with that too).

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burke985•19 months

Well there goes the heart felt warm story

Lutcher Lad•19 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.

TigerDeBaiter•19 months

Why would he care if he lost his starting position if he needed/wanted to sit out. I’m not saying it’s ok to threaten him with that (if it actually happened) but if you feel the need to not practice then you’re not playing either. Logic doesn’t check out.

Unfortunate situation that he’s dreams of going to the NFL are likely gone, but to seek retribution for the medical team is not a good look.

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