After months of haggling, the N.F.L. and lawyers representing Black players who accused the league of discrimination filed a joint proposal that will scrap the use of a race-based method to evaluate dementia claims made by former players in the league’s concussion settlement.
The tentative agreement was filed more than a year after two former players sued the N.F.L. for discrimination. They asserted the league has systematically and secretly denied benefits worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to Black players, criticizing how the league has handled the groundbreaking class action settlement that has paid more than $800 million in claims so far.