NFL’s Concussion Settlement To Be Reviewed

This week a federal judge will review the settlement that the NFL reached with 20,000 former players over concussion injuries. In June, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody granted preliminary approval to the class action settlement, after the NFL removed language that would have capped payments at $675 million. The current agreement would provide up to $5 million to players with the most severe injuries, and give $4 million to families of players who died from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy before July 2014. Any player diagnosed with CTE after that date, however, would receive nothing. Hall of Fame player Joe DeLamielleure cited that as one reason he chose to opt out of the class action and continue pursuing his own case against the league.