June 01, 2026
The NFL's disability and retirement plans have agreed to reassess former players' cognitive health to settle a sweeping class action accusing the plans of muting the results based on race.
April 11, 2024
Two former players whose lawsuit accuses the NFL's disability benefit plans of awarding them lower benefits because they are Black told a Maryland federal court they have had "productive" meetings with the defendants and are near a settlement proposal.
October 02, 2023
Two former NFL players have accused the league's disability benefit plans of using race-norming to deny them the full payouts they are entitled to receive, in a proposed class action in federal court in Baltimore that marks the second such suit this year to claim that the NFL bases payouts on the now-discredited practice.