The National Football League’s retirement plan failed to get another chance to convince the Eleventh Circuit that it properly denied retroactive disability benefits to a retired defensive end, after the appeals court denied the plan’s petition for rehearing.
The NFL plan wanted the appeals court to reconsider its 2020 decision reviving a lawsuit by Darren Mickell, who played for the Chiefs, Saints, Chargers, and Raiders over an eight-year career. The court said the NFL retirement plan board ignored medical evidence supporting Mickell’s claimed disability and overlooked the cumulative effect of his conditions.
This ruling was based on a “manifest factual ...
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