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  Doctors' group says NFL shut down payments for retired players' care to hide disability, brain injury

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 6:40pm

  A scrum between a Chicago area medical group and the National Football League has touched down in Chicago’s courts, with the operators of the clinics accusing the NFL of leaning on insurers to cut their payments after the clinicians began to side with retired players seeking disability status for brain injuries and other maladies.

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  NFL alleges widespread fraud by unnamed plaintiffs lawyers, doctors in concussion settlement; Special investigator appropriate, class counsel says

  By Nicholas Malfitano | Monday, Apr 30, 2018 @ 8:00am

  PHILADELPHIA – If the National Football League has their way, sanctions will be issued and a special investigator will be appointed to the NFL’s $1 billion Concussion Settlement program, as the league alleges an independent claims administrator determined that 23 percent of the claims submitted to it were fraudulent.

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