NFL agrees to end race-based brain testing in $1B settlement

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FILE - In this May 14, 2021, record photo, erstwhile NFL players Ken Jenkins, right, and Clarence Vaughn III, halfway right, on with their wives, Amy Lewis, center, and Brooke Vaughn, left, transportation petitions demanding adjacent attraction for everyone progressive successful the colony of concussion claims against the NFL, to the national courthouse successful Philadelphia, successful this Friday, May 14, 2021, record photo. Lawyers for the NFL and retired players filed projected changes to the $1 cardinal concussion colony connected Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, to region race-norming successful dementia testing, which made it much hard for Black players to suffice for payments. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Posted at 8:42 PM, Oct 20, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-20 21:42:26-04

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL has agreed to extremity race-based adjustments successful dementia investigating successful the $1 cardinal colony of concussion claims.

That's according to a projected colony filed successful national tribunal successful Philadelphia connected Wednesday.

Critics accidental the usage of “race-norming” successful the investigating has made it hard for Black retirees to suffice for awards that mean $500,000 oregon more.

The projected changes travel aft months of closed-door negotiations.

The NFL says the program would supply “a race-neutral valuation process” and "diagnostic accuracy and fairness successful the concussion settlement.”

The league says it hopes Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody approves it promptly.