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The Webster family is currently taking legal action against the National Football League with the goal of removing that qualification from the settlement. [78] The NFL has paid nearly $1 billion in settlements from claims alleging long-term injuries from repeated blows to the head. Courts have examined these claims using a "Trigger" process.
The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion claims, according to ...
The National Football League has agreed to a $765 million settlement in a dispute with retired players over the health impact from concussions. The settlement takes a potentially negative ...
The federal judge overseeing the $1 billion concussion settlement with the NFL awarded $112.5 million in attorney fees—but it might be another year before she decides how to divide the global ...
The National Football League concussion committee was an NFL head, neck and spine medical committee from 2007 to 2010. [1] Statements from the former co-chair Dr. Ira Casson on concussion and injury have received national attention. [ 2 ]
As the NFL gets set to kick off another season, former players are still fighting for payments from the league after a 2017 settlement over concussions.
Tua Tagovailoa's concussion history timeline It was Sept. 29, 2022, against the Cincinnati Bengals when Tagovailoa was tossed to the ground . His head whiplashed against the turf.
The NFL was heavily criticized when it became known that race norming, which assumed that black players started with lower cognitive levels than white players, was being used in determining whether players qualified for help in the initial years of the settlement. The parties to the settlement discontinued the use of race norming in June 2021.