Attorneys representing professional football players in the concussion class action against the National Football League will take home $112.5 million.
The performance of class counsel has been “extraordinary” and the fees requested are “well earned,” Judge Anita B. Brody wrote April 5 for the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The award represents 11 percent of the settlement fund. The fund is uncapped, so the figure was based on its net present value of $982.2 million. The total estimated value of the settlement over its lifetime is now $1.5 billion.
The fee award comes as some brain-injured ...
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