NFL players say concussion settlement program is ‘settlement in name only’

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By Emma Baccellieri | Deadspin

A group of former NFL players who have made medical claims through their class-action lawsuit on concussions say that the league has rigged the settlement program and is not paying up as promised, according to their latest court filing.

The bulk of the ex-players’ claims—1,113 of 1,712—made in the first year of the settlement agreement cited dementia. Of those, just six have been paid out. The league’s original forecasts predicted that 430 such claims would have been paid out by this time. A higher proportion of claims have been approved for other conditions, such as Alzheimer’s and ALS, but the total number is still well under the NFL’s projections: the league has made 156 payments, according to the filing, versus the projected 665.

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