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Is the NFL using race to deny brain injury claims? © Getty Images Retired NFL player Najeh Davenport (center) claims the league forced a reversal of his dementia diagnosis so that they would not need to compensate him for injuries related to his career. The National Football League has promised it will no longer settle concussion lawsuits using race-based formulas that assume black players have lower cognitive function. Why was it using them to begin with? In 2013, the NFL agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement with retirees who alleged their on-field concussions had given rise to brai...

The NFL has said it will stop settling concussion lawsuits using a race-based formula that assumes black players have lower cognitive function than whites.

… Race-based adjustments for neurology – known as “Heaton norms” – were designed in the early 1990s by Dr Robert Heaton to estimate how socioeconomic factors affect someone’s health. They are widely used, but in recent years, scientists in the field have begun to recognize the limitations of the normative comparison groups they have used for years. The small sample group of Blacks Heaton chose to create his adjustment protocol came entirely from San Diego, a military town where the Black population hardly reflected the diversity of Blacks across the US. If San Diego is like Honolu...

Retired Black Players Say NFL Brain-Injury Payouts Show Bias By Maryclaire Dale and Michelle R. Smith Associated Press Published May 15, 2021 Former NFL player Ken Jenkins exits the building after delivering tens of thousands of petitions demanding equal treatment for everyone involved in the settlement of concussion claims against the NFL, to the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine...

May 15, 2021 Share Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory. Former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 60, and his wife, Amy Lewis, on Friday delivered 50,000 petitions demanding equal treatment for Black players to Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody in Philadelphia, who is overseeing the massive settlement. Forme...