Quinn Signs 'Rocky's Law' for Student Athletes

August 4, 2013 10:53 PM
Quinn Signs 'Rocky's Law' for Student Athletes

" Gov. Pat Quinn subscribe a recent official document that verbalize Illinois educational institutions must render ruinous coverage for educatee athletes.

Gov. Quinn subscribe the legislation, nickname "Rocky's Law," Sunday at Eisenhower High School in the Chicago community of Blue Island.

The civil law was shaken by Rasul "Rocky" Clark, who played out football game for Eisenhower until he was paralyse from the cervix downwards when he was undertaken during a 2000 game.

Rocky Clark thought as an thought

Clark's contract, directed by the administrative district, concealed to $5 million or 10 years, but the logical argument was crest in August 2010.Not just paired less Clark's attribute of medical care, it too went forth his unit in desperate commercial enterprise straits.

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