NEW YORK — Ten retired NFL players have filed a federal lawsuit against the league over its “unscrupulous” disability benefits program.
According to the suit by the former players — filed Thursday in Baltimore against the league’s benefits plan, its board of trustees and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — the league used “unscrupulous tactics” to deny disability claims and limit payments to players.
The NFL also engaged in “an overly aggressive and disturbing pattern of erroneous and arbitrary benefits denials, bad faith contract misinterpretations and other unscrupulous tactics,” the suit alleges. The tactics were said to include shepherding players to doctors who had financial incentives to not find them disabled.
