NFL Agrees to Suspend All COVID Protocols.The process of 'race-norming' started in the medical community to establish a basis for a variety of socioeconomic factors that could be affecting someone's health, but experts have said using it the way those evaluating former NFL players did was too simplistic and likely discriminated against Black players. However, she ordered the attorneys for the players and the NFL to go through mediation to solve the problems in the claims process. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia could help many former players receive claims up to $600,000, AP reported.īrody dismissed a lawsuit last year from two former players, Najeh Davenport and Kevin Henry, which alleged that the process was discriminatory to Black former players who were looking to receive money from the $1 billion settlement.

The new agreement approved by Senior U.S. 'Race-norming' made the assumption that Black people have lower levels of cognitive function than white people, making it harder for non-white former NFL players to prove a loss of brain function due to repeated brain trauma suffered while playing professional football. The claims that can be resubmitted might have been denied in part due to the NFL's controversial use of 'race-norming' in the claims process, which gained national attention and anger over the last several years, the Associated Press reported.

A new plan finalized Friday could allow many retired NFL players to resubmit their claims or be retested for dementia after their initial claims were denied.

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