The NFL’s Concussion Lawsuit Should Have Shamed the League. It won’t.

By Saleel V. Sabnis, Esq.   The concussion controversy hovering over the National Football League partly dissipated in late August when it was announced the League had settled the lawsuit filed by numerous former players in the neighborhood of $765 million dollars. Settlement agreements rarely mandate that a defendant admit fault, and therefore the NFL will never have to speak to what it knew about the connection between its sport and traumatic brain injuries or when it knew it. This is of