Number-crunchers for both the NFL and the former players who sued the league after they suffered head injuries found that the original settlement amount of $760 million—which was rejected in January by the federal judge handling the case—would have been able to cover the claims former players are likely to make over the next 65 years. That actuarial information, which had been kept confidential from all but a small number of lawyers representing the thousands of plaintiffs in the case, has been a source of contention over the last year as dozens of lawyers in the case sought to get access to it. The two reports were disclosed Friday.
Although each report takes a different route to get to its conclusion, they both find that with the amount of interest likely to accrue on the bulk of the original settlement—$675 million—that the National Football League had agreed to put in the fund from which former players would have drawn based upon their injuries, there would have been enough to last for the 65-year expected life of the fund.
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