In Latest Chapter of NFL Concussion Litigation Saga, NFL Fights with Its Insurers—and Its Insurers Fight Among Themselves—Over $1 Billion in Coverage

(Editor’s Note: What follows appeared in Sports Medicine and the Law , a periodical produced by Hackney Publications and Montgomery McCracken) By Joseph E. Samuel, Jr., Esq. Nearly seven years after reaching a class-wide settlement—then estimated at roughly $1 billion—with thousands of retired players who brought concussion-related lawsuits, the National Football League is now pressing its claims in New York state court to recoup those funds from various insurers.  Meanwhile, di