As most retired football players will wholeheartedly agree, getting qualified to receive benefits from the NFLPA/NFL’s Bell/Rozelle NFL Retirement Plan is a lot like winning the Lotto: If you win, you win big; but your chances qualifying are like a snowball’s chance in Hell.
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The University of Baltimore School of Law held their first Annual Sports Law Symposium today. This year’s conference was From Rookie to Retirement: The NFL Universe in the New Economy and you can read the agenda on their site HERE. Here’s a list of the speakers (the usual suspects) and their topics: continue reading »
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OK – At the end of September, we sent off a letter to the CEO Gregory Case of AON Corp. in Chicago asking for answers about a death benefit that’s supposed to provide our spouses with continuing benefits after we pass away. And we copied those letters to Attorneys General and Insurance Commissioners in several states as well as to Congressional leaders involved with investigating the NFL. (Read about it HERE and HERE.)
We’ve had some responses from a couple of Attorney General offices as well as Insurance Commissioners but absolutely no direct response from AON. So we were pleasantly surprised to get a letter from the Washington State Attorney General’s office along with a copy of the response they got back from Paulette Solinsky, general counsel for AON. (Click on each image to enlarge it for easier reading.)
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Without a doubt, Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson has had a remarkable life, both inside and outside of football. His life is as much about the resilience of the human spirit as it is about second chances. I recently talked with him about some of the latest things that have been unfolding, including the Commissioner’s meeting down in Dallas and the ongoing battle for just treatment for the retired players. (You can read his earlier comments by clicking HERE.) He also sent me an open letter to the NFLPA’s Sarah Gaunt and all those are supposed to be involved with the welfare of retired players. Here’s his proposal in its entirety:
FROM: Mr. Thomas Henderson
Austin, TX 78767
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