Ten former National Football League players filed a proposed class action claiming the league’s disability plan engages in an “overly aggressive and disturbing pattern” of arbitrarily denying benefits.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland, claims players seeking disability benefits are forced to navigate a process riddled with lies, material misrepresentations, flagrant violations of federal law, reliance on conflicted advisers, and “ever-shifting inconsistent and illogical interpretations” of the disability plan itself.
The league disability board pays hefty sums to handpicked doctors who examine the players and overwhelmingly recommend that their benefit claims ...
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