Lawsuit over heat illness risk from helmets and shoulder pads

The scales of heat justice 

A federal judge ordered a jury trial in the lawsuit brought by the family of deceased Viking's lineman Korey Stringer against a football equipment company:

(Judge John D. Holschuh) concluded that manufacturer Riddell Inc. had a duty to warn Stringer that its helmets and shoulder pads could contribute to heat stroke when used in hot conditions.

I can comprehend how his widow targeted the NFL as a system that could and should be changed:

the lawsuit challenges what it calls the wrongheaded culture of the N.F.L., particularly the training-camp culture, in which coaches have long believed it is better for the conditioning of players to train in sweltering heat. The lawyers for Stringer maintain that medical science has long proved otherwise.

Like the sickle cell trait lawsuit brought against Rice University and the NCAA it did have goals beyond money for the plaintiffs, i.e. the NFL developing heat illness prevention programs for football players of all ages.

However, if Riddell loses this case should we then force Burlington Coat Factory to warn everyone that its products can contribute to heat illness? What about the jersey or sock manufacturers? Those layers definitely impair the body's ability to lose heat via evaporation and convection (this is why I am a proponent of vented shoulder pads over mist fans when it comes to keeping football players cool on the sidelines - the mist can't get to much skin surface area, especially at the torso heat core).  When would a reasonable person, be expected to understand that wearing a hat/helmet keeps heat in? That hot coffee can scald skin?

Warning: This hat may have devastating effects on the female sex

Interestingly, warning labels on cigarette packaging are less effective in the US than in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Do as I sue not as I do?