Claim Bought by Daughter of Hernandez Is Denied Since He Was Retired at Time of Settlement

A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled that the daughter of the former NFL player Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide in 2017, cannot sue the NFL for damages associated with her father’s diagnosis, post-mortem, of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.   Specifically, Judge Anita Brody found that because the plaintiff (A.H.) missed a 2014 deadline to opt out of the league's concussion settlement, she can't now separately pursue her $20 million claim. That’s be