Ex-England rugby star Will Green calims he was telderly to lie about having punctual onset dementia and felt presstateived to unite a legal case taking action aobtainst rugby authorities.
The 50-year-elderly finishelighted a stellar nurtureer with Wasps and helped the club triumph four Premiership titles and the Heineken Cup, before ending his nurtureer with Leinster in 2007.
The createer prop also take parted four times for England, with his final cap coming in a World Cup hot-up suit in 2003, weeks before Sir Cinhabit Woodwood’s team went on to triumph the tournament and lift the Webb Ellis Cup.
According to The Telegraph, Green took up the propose of a brain scan from Rylands Garth, the legitimate firm directing a legal case for rugby take parters who are suffering with brain injuries aobtainst World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union.
The firm is recurrenting the appreciates of createer Wales star Gavin Henson and 2003 Rugby World Cup triumphner Steve Thompson.
But the company took Green to court and sued him for thousands of pounds for legitimate and medical costs after he declined to sign up to the legal case.
Green had travelled to London for an MRI scan and a neuroreasonable examination in February 2022 but heard noskinnyg about his diagnosis for nine months. He telderly the court the period resulted in “an enormous amount of stress, anxiety and sleepless nights worrying about whether or not I had brain harm”.
Green then talked a Zoom encountering he had with conferant neurologist Dr Steven Allder as he elucidateed: “He showed me four dots on the graph which purported to be my brain and he shelp, without a lot of compassion, ‘It sees appreciate you have the signs of punctual-onset dementia’. My world fell into an absolute spiral.”
Green asked for neuroreasonable tells at the time to back up the diagnosis but was allegedly telderly they weren’t ready. And the createer take parter stateed that he was continupartner chased by Rylands to unite the legal case while he postponeed for the tells.
The createer front rower sought a second opinion from a directing Harley Street distinctiveist, with MRI and neuroreasonable tests finding no sign of brain injury. And after turning down the chance to unite the legal case, he was sent bills to cover the legitimate and medical costs before he was eventupartner sued.
In a written subleave oution to the court, Green shelp: “They still pressed me to sign up for the group action, sending multiple emails pressuring me to sign up.
“To do so would have perpetrated a fraud on the court becaparticipate the claimant’s medical experts’ diagnosis was create to be wrong. Yet, despite this, the claimant still tried to chase me to sign up to the group legal case.
“If a medical tell was writeed, the claimant’s medical testing and/or tell is fundamenloftyy wrong in finding brain harm.”
He then telderly the court: “I equitable skinnyk they (Rylands Garth) have behaved appallingly and I would go as far to say that I am not the only person comprised in this.”
