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A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the estimated $1 billion concussion settlement with retired players, calling the agreement imperfect but fair.
The dozens of retired players challenging the settlement complained that it didn't cover potential victims of a degenerative brain disease. Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to NFL ...
In the 2010 season for the Canadian Football League, there have been 50 reported concussions; 44.8 percent of players reported having a concussion or concussion-like symptoms, 16.9 percent had confirmed that they had a concussion, and 69.6 percent of all players who suffered from concussions that year suffered from more than one. [92]
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 ...
From the remainder of the settlement, $75 million will be used for medical exams, and $10 million will be used for research and education. [38] However, in January, 2014, U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody refused to accept the agreed settlement because "the money wouldn't adequately compensate the nearly 20,000 men not named in the suit."
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 ]
A year after the process for compensating former National Football League players under the $1 billion settlement agreement officially began, calls that the administrative process is too slow and ...
Over a 13-year period from September 1989 to June 2002, there were 94 players who sustained catastrophic head injuries—8 of these players died as a result of the injury, 46 sustained permanent neurological damage, and 36 made a full recovery. 56% of these players had a history of head injuries, 71% of them occurring in the same season as ...
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