Another petition was filed asking the United States Supreme Court to throw out a $1 billion settlement of NFL concussion lawsuits, citing treatment of current brain injuries versus future ones.
Former NFL players who filed the petition on Monday say that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) diagnosed before April 2015 can bring $4 million while future diagnoses of CTE aren’t compensated. The April 2015 cutoff date was set in an attempt to avoid incentivizing suicides.
Payouts from the settlement will be delayed for at least a few months after the family of a former player filed a last-second appeal last month.