NFL to End 'Race-Norming' in Brain Injury Settlements

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The National Football League on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, as well as to review past scores for any potential race bias.

According to Associated Press reports, the practice of race-norming had made it harder for Black players to show a cognitive deficit as the result of head injury and qualify for compensation. The standards were designed in medicine in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way it was used to assess legal damages in the NFL case.

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