We swear – we’re NOT making any of this stuff up! Looks like we are now officially going into CYA time and people are coming forward with more documentation on Burt Grossman’s missing $40,000 Severance Pay. These documents just arrived this morning from Burt’s attorney, Daniel Anastasia, via Burt. We hope the PA continues to take ownership of this and starts to question the issue of Severance Pay for all the other retired players. A lot of them are also only now discovering that they haven’t been paid (including Lionel James who has gone through an almost identical stonewall process like Burt). Be sure to read our prior post this morning from Irv Cross that includes the language in the ’82 contract covering Severance from that agreement – click HERE to read it.
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This story started a couple of weeks ago when I was reminded that Valerie Cross was the person listed as the Director of Player Benefits for the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Players Retirement Plan. So I went ahead and called her office. My call got directed to her voicemail and I left a message asking her to call me back regarding some questions that I had about my benefits as well as my HIPAA/ERISA rights. The story continues in the following e-mails:
Dear Mr. Lamade,
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First the press release that just hit the AP newswire today:
NFL Starts Spinal Program for Players
The NFL is starting a spinal treatment program for retired players.
The league will make specialists available at five hospitals across the United States to evaluate and treat retirees with spinal injuries.
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How time flies. It’s been over 6 months since NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell first announced his tour back in September to hear all about retired players’ grievances. (That story first appeared HERE.) You may remember that this tour was announced with great fanfare and press last year as Roger Goodell’s opportunity to speak and listen to the retired players across the country. If the reports have been accurate, it sounds like the Commish managed to visit a staggering 6 NFL cities out of a total of 32 teams (?!!) before all press releases stopped.
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Five months after Dave first started applying his application for reimbursement from the NFL under their Hip Replacement Program and almost 2 months after we first wrote about it back in November, Dave finally received a real check today! (Read about Dave’s Hip Replacement T-Shirt by clicking HERE.)
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I’ve been following Dave’s ongoing attempts to get a check out of the NFL’s hip replacement program over the past couple of months. I’ve been amazed at Dave’s patience as Valerie Cross (the NFL’s Director of Player Benefits) and Eden Haloway, Mary-Ann Fleming (the NFL’s Manager of Player Benefits) kept requesting more and more details and copies of bills related to Dave’s injuries and hip surgery.
“Man, oh man,” I thought to myself. “As much as they’re wanting to know, they’re really going to help him out and finally issue him a decent check to cover some of his costs.” They had Dave send doctors’ names and numbers, copies of his various physical therapy bills, medications and other related expenses in great detail. In all, Dave must have spent well over a week’s worth of his time on the phone and going through files to send her everything she asked for.
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