La Salle University has agreed to pay $7.5 million to one of its former football players who suffered severe brain damage in a game after being cleared by university personnel following a concussion he sustained in a practice one month earlier.
After months of on-and-off negotiations, the case was settled on Nov. 25 in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, before Judge William J. Manfredi, less than a week shy of its Nov. 30 trial date.
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