{"id":26339,"date":"2013-08-29T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26339"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:51:14","slug":"nfl-settles-lawsuits-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26339","title":{"rendered":"NFL Wants Settlement, Lawsuits, Concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP AUg 29, 2013) &#8211; A federal judge says the NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to settle concussion-related lawsuits for $765 million.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The global settlement would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plaintiffs include at least 10 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including former Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett. They also include Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jim McMahon and the family of Pro Bowl linebacker Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The lawsuits accuse the league of hiding known risks of concussions for decades to return players to games and protect its image. The NFL has denied any wrongdoing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia announced the proposed settlement Thursday. She still needs to approve the deal, which comes after months of court-ordered mediation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP AUg 29, 2013) &#8211; A federal judge says the NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to settle concussion-related lawsuits for $765 million. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The global settlement would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plaintiffs include at least 10 members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}