In April, a jury there found that Riddell was liable for not adequately warning players wearing its helmets about the dangers of potential head trauma.
A jury in Colorado has found that Riddell, the country's largest helmet manufacturer, was at fault for failure to adequately warn players wearing their football helmets about the dangers of potential concussions.
Last month, the New York state attorney general issued a consumer alert stating that marketing claims by helmet manufacturers about "concussion-proof" helmets are misleading and warned parents that no helmet can fully prevent a concussion.
It would not include additional pieces that troops currently use to shield sides, shoulders, arms, the groin and other areas -- pieces that, with a helmet, weigh about 35 pounds.
The Mets' Ike Davis, who wore the new helmet for about a month last season, said that his older models "fit like a hat," but that the S100 Pro Comp was heavier and bulkier.
He just stood there, in full uniform save for his helmet, for about five minutes, leaning against a door as Rex Ryan, coach of the free-falling Jets, detailed his team's struggles for a third consecutive Sunday.
"If I wasn't wearing my helmet, forget about it, I would be like Marion Hedges," he said, referring to a Manhattan real estate broker who was severely injured in October when she was struck by a shopping cart that had been dropped from a walkway of an East Harlem mall.
Even though statistics show that the majority of skateboarders receiving tickets are teenagers, Casas sees more adults violating the city's helmet law; about two-thirds of them say they use skateboards to get to work.
