The National Football League retirement plan owes a former running back disability benefits at the highest available level, according to a post-trial ruling from a Texas federal judge who chastised the plan’s “byzantine process” and “far from pretty” inner workings.
The league plan abused its discretion in paying Michael Cloud reduced benefits of about $135,000 per year instead of the plan’s highest available level of benefits, which are worth about twice as much, Judge Karen Gren Scholer of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Tuesday. Scholer ordered the league plan to pay Cloud these higher ...
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