April 22, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday signed off on an uncapped settlement in multidistrict litigation between the National Football League and about 5,000 former players seeking damages for concussions and degenerative neurological conditions resulting from their playing days. Correction: An earlier headline misstated that the settlement was for $765 million. The error has been corrected.
April 14, 2015
Dozens of former NFL players objected in Pennsylvania federal court Monday to the terms of a $765 million settlement in a class action over concussions and brain damage, claiming that the amended deal still benefits the league at the players' expense.
February 27, 2015
Several former professional football players objected Friday to an amended $765 million proposed settlement in multidistrict litigation regarding concussions with the National Football League, saying the amendments create a situation in which players with a certain brain condition would have incentive to commit suicide before the cutoff date for benefits.
February 03, 2015
The Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing the contentious settlement process in the NFL concussion litigation has urged the parties to make changes to their proposed deal in order to include more former players, taking an unusually solicitous approach that could shape settlement negotiations in other ongoing concussion battles, attorneys say.
February 02, 2015
The National Football League may have to make a few changes to its $765 million settlement in multidistrict concussion-related litigation, including making concessions for sufferers of a brain condition that's hard to detect, according to an order in Pennsylvania federal court on Monday.
December 03, 2014
The federal judge overseeing multidistrict concussion-related litigation against the NFL was urged Tuesday to reject a nearly $800 million settlement agreement over concerns that the deal didn't do enough for sufferers of a particular degenerative brain condition.
December 02, 2014
A public interest advocacy group told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday that the two former players leading the charge against the National Football League in landmark concussion-related litigation did not adequately represent the disparate interests of the more than 22,000 putative class members in the case.
November 19, 2014
National Football League attorneys and class counsel on Wednesday pushed a Pennsylvania federal judge to approve a landmark class action settlement over concussion litigation, amid objections from certain former players and family that the deal did not properly cover a key degenerative brain disorder.
November 04, 2014
More than 200 former players and their relatives have opted out of the controversial NFL concussion settlement that some have argued arbitrarily offers compensation for certain concussion-related degenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's while restricting payouts for others, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to documents filed Monday.
October 03, 2014
Just nine former players so far have chosen not to participate in the proposed NFL concussion settlement, the lead-plaintiffs attorneys for the settling players said Thursday, ahead of the mid-October deadline to opt out of the controversial deal that recently withstood a Third Circuit appeal.