Paul Edelstein helped boxer Magomed Abdusalamov and his family get a $22 million settlement from the state of New York last year in a case that involved athletic commission negligence. Abdusalamov was left with brain damage after a 2013 boxing match at Madison Square Garden.
Now, Edelstein is focused on a broader goal: getting states and commissions to adopt new regulations for potential brain injures. Edelstein, a New York lawyer, wants to call it “Mago’s Law.”
His plan is simple enough: a “lower bar” for fighters getting transported to the hospital after a fight in which they sustain a significant amount of damage to the head.