I’ve written often about the lawsuits between the NFL and former professional football players regarding their concussions.\u00a0 Now, the NCAA is settling (or at least trying to settle) its own lawsuit about sports-related concussions.<\/p>\n
Under the proposed class action settlement, the NCAA will fund a $70 million pool of money to pay for former college athletes to undergo testing to determine whether they have brain injuries.\u00a0 The settlement will also have the NCAA set mandated “return to play” policy that all schools must follow instead of letting each school have its own policy.\u00a0 This would obviously help protect athletes in the future.<\/p>\n
The settlement does not pay the athletes any damages for their concussions.\u00a0 Instead, the athletes would still have to sue their former schools or other parties to recover those damages.\u00a0 The test results that the NCAA is funding might be able to play a part in the eventual lawsuits.<\/p>\n