article_snippet.sent: deal comes after the league has been dogged for years by complaints that deal long hid the risks of repeated concussions in order to return players to the field.
article_snippet.sent: deal means NFL NFL may never have to disclose what NFL knew when about the risks and treatment of concussions.
article_snippet.sent: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (above) has been criticized for not doing enough to prevent players from getting concussions .
article_snippet.sent: The NFL lawsuits, and similar suits filed later against the NHL, the NCAA and others, has fostered debate, discussion and safety reforms about sports concussions.
article_snippet.sent: NFL NFL earlier this year said concussions have dropped by 36 per cent after NFL changed the way players tackle (above David Bruton
article_snippet.sent: Brody rejected other complaints raised at a November hearing, including those who say the agreement does not cover future deaths from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that can only be diagnosed after death, or contemplate the day when it might be diagnosed in the living.
article_snippet.sent: Although objectors insist that there must be compensation for CTE, the NFL parties were unwilling to settle claims based solely on a (diagnosis) ... rather than on manifest neurocognitive deficits,' the lead negotiators wrote in a March court filing urging Brody to approve the deal. '
article_snippet.sent: Many of the behavioral and mood conditions claimed to be associated with CTE are prevalent within the general public.'