Ex-NFL Running Back Denied SCOTUS Look at Disability Benefits

Oct. 7, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

A former NFL running back seeking increased disability benefits on Monday lost his bid for US Supreme Court review of a decision favoring the league plan.

Michael Cloud, who played for the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants and was on the New England Patriots’ 2004 Super Bowl-winning team, wanted the justices to review a 2023 decision in which the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said he isn’t entitled to reclassification at the highest level of NFL disability pay because he didn’t show a change in his circumstances between his 2014 claim for reclassification and a ...

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