Page 7 - Concussion Settlement News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Absolutely. >> tucker: so, i mean, tell us -- give us the overview of what you think is happening here. >> so, in this concussion settlement case, i could talk to you about my players. i have 90 clients. and 95% of my players are african-american. 5% are white. none of them have been paid. i've submitted 41 claims. and 38 of them are in audit for fraud. over 99% of the players that are in audit for fraud are african-american. and i just believe that if this were a group of retired white golfers, they have been played already. >> tucker: those are claims that are pretty hard to verify unless yo...

Not be good. absolutely. >> tucker: so, i mean, tell us -- give us the overview of what you think is happening here. >> so, in this concussion settlement case, i could talk to you about my players. i have 90 clients. and 95% of my players are african-american. 5% are white. none of them have been paid. i've submitted 41 claims. and 38 of them are in audit for fraud. over 99% of the players that are in audit for fraud are african-american. and i just believe that if this were a group of retired white golfers, they have been played already. >> tucker: those are claims that are pretty hard to ver...

Auditioning for reality show. that anonymous producer talked him out of hurting anyone and into turning his life around. portis has since filed multiple lawsuits against his former financial advisors, and is again working as a broadcaster for the washington redskins. he is also eligible for financial coverage as part of the nfl's concussion settlement, but to get the money he'd have to agree to be tested for neurological problems, which he won't do because he's "scared of the results." martha. >> martha: what a story. andrew brandt, former nfl and nba agent, and former vice president of the gr...

Highcamp, north dakota, and joe manchin from west virginia. all plan to join several republicans at that meeting. all four democrats and they are from states that donald trump won in the presidential election. to north carolina with a court temporarily blocked a law passed by the republican controlled legislature, stripping the democratic governor of some of his powers. claiming that lawmakers overstepped their authority when they approved that law. and there are calls for new protests against construction of the dakota access pipeline after the army corps of engineers said it would approve co...

The throes of cte. so little is known about cte. and there's no way to determine while the players are still alive if they have it. but a study hoping to change that lost one of its biggest backers just this week. guess who? that's right, the nfl. espn's outside the lines reportreport ed yesterday that the nfl vetoed for the study.eviously set aside i want to talk to christine brennan. christine, we should say this cte study is going to get funded any way. the national institutes of health is going to pay for it, but why would the nfl back out? >> it's mind boggling. embrace it, right? you're ...