The federal judge in Philadelphia overseeing the NFL’s landmark settlement with its former players for concussion-related ailments said Wednesday that she found “sufficient evidence of probable fraud” from those seeking payouts to “warrant serious concern.”
But she denied for now a league request to appoint a special investigator to hunt down those gaming the system.
In her two-page order, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody said the system set up by the league and lawyers for its 20,000 potentially eligible former players already included measures to weed out false claims and that it appeared to be “working effectively.