Overview
- Two Pennsylvania men filed a product‑liability suit in Philadelphia County naming DraftKings, FanDuel, the NFL and Genius Sports, and they seek a jury trial, damages and an injunction.
- The plaintiffs say the apps used behavioral data, AI and push alerts to drive nonstop in‑play “microbets” that resolve in seconds, and they report losses of about $170,300 and roughly $1.8 million.
- The complaint links the speed of these wagers to the NFL’s exclusive data deal with Genius Sports, which supplies low‑latency official stats used to set odds on each play.
- The suit describes pressure from VIP hosts, including texts and a Super Bowl travel offer, and one plaintiff says messages continued after he joined Pennsylvania’s self‑exclusion list.
- DraftKings, FanDuel and the NFL have not commented and Genius Sports declined, and the case arrives as Massachusetts considers banning in‑game bets and a separate federal case in Pennsylvania against DraftKings was dismissed.