The family of former San Diego Chargers star Junior Seau, who killed himself in 2012, raised objections on Friday to a $760 million proposal to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of former professional football players charging that the National Football League downplayed the risk of concussions.
Seau’s family said the deal, which a federal judge earlier this month rejected as not setting aside enough money for such a large group of people, fell short by not treating people with wrongful-death claims differently from those who had simply been injured.
The proposed settlement set aside up to $5 million for each former player diagnosed with a certain brain condition resulting from years of repeated hits to the head in NFL games and practices.
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