The National Football League has vowed to stop the practice of treating minority players differently when assessing brain injury claims, according to The Associated Press.
Former NFL players Najeh Davenport and Kevin Henry sued the league in 2020 for “race-norming,” which assumes that Black players started out with lower cognitive function, thereby making it harder for Black retirees to show a deficit and qualify for payment.
League spokesperson Brian McCarthy said in a statement to The Hill that the NFL is committed to eliminating “race-based norms” in the program, adding that a panel which includes two female and three Black doctors have proposed a new testing regime.
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“Everyone agrees race-based norms should be replaced, but no off-the-shelf alternative exists and that’s why these experts are working to solve this decades-old issue,” McCarthy said in an email to The Hill. “The replacement norms will be applied prospectively and retrospectively for those players who otherwise would have qualified for an award but for the application of race-based norms.”
More than 2,000 retired players have filed for dementia claims, with fewer than 600 of those players receiving benefits, according to a report.
The NFL did appeal some cases against players if their scores weren’t adjusted by race.
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