A magistrate judge from The Northern District of California has handed a victory to a former NFL player, who had challenged the decision of the Retirement Board of the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan (Plan), which denied him total and permanent...
By John E. Tyrrell and Kelly Woy Earlier this summer, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey issued an insurance coverage opinion which, quite appropriately, involved a dome covering over a baseball field. Healthquest of Cent. Jersey,...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer The NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement gives players various medical benefits by way of an NFL Player Insurance Plan (“Plan”) and the NFL Management Council administers it. The Management Council delegated its authority to...
For more than two decades, Monument Sports Group has serviced the sports industry like few others, providing risk management services that have enabled facilities, teams, and other sports-related entities the peace of mind and, of course, the insurance necessary to...
By Laura J. Henneman of Segal McCambridge Singer and Mahoney, Ltd. In a recent ruling, the Court of Appeals of Indiana upheld the granting of summary judgment in Appellee-Defendant Insurers’ favor and against the Appellant-Plaintiff NCAA in an insurance...
By Hannah Shankman, GW Law, 2L An Indiana appellate court upheld a trial court ruling on July 15, 2020 for several insurance companies, which had been sued by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) after the NCAA lost a class action, case Jenkins...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer The Washington Redskins recently defeated a worker’s compensation case brought by former player Adam Carriker. This was his second such case related to his left ankle. He had settled the first one against his first NFL employer,...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Anthony Trucks played for the Steelers for a brief moment in 2008 and filed a worker’s compensation case in 2011. The Steelers admitted the claim but insisted that Trucks was merely a “seasonal employee” who would thus receive less...
By Richard C. Giller, Esq., of Pillsbury The 2020 NFL Draft will take place in just over 4 months in Las Vegas, Nevada between Thursday, April 23 and Saturday, April 25, 2020. Several months before last year’s NFL Draft, and months before Clemson beat Alabama...
The NFL has reached a settlement with Westport Insurance Corporation, after a lengthy battle between the two regarding payments to players who suffered brain injuries during their playing career and now experience medical issues, according to a New York State Supreme...
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has reversed a workers’ compensation judge, as well as a holding of the workers’ compensation court of appeals, and, instead, sided with the Minnesota Vikings and various insurance companies in a case in which a former NFL player sought...
The number of insurance agencies in the sports industry is a modest few, influenced by the increasingly litigious nature of participants, parents, and others as well as other factors. Most agencies are moving away from the industry. But not Monument...