Blood Money to Make Retired and Disabled Retired Players Lives Miserable

Here’s are the names and numbers, the program for the NFLPA-NFL legal defense team who are paid to abuse the retired and disabled retired players.

Berthlsen NFLPA lawyer $587,738 (04)
Groom Law Group $5.6 million (04) (05)
The Allens, Doug & Wife $447,811 plus $326,517 (04)
Gene Upshaw, Troy Vincent $3 Million (05)
Aking Gump Law $111,132 (03) $49,400 (04)
Hendersen NFL negotiator $200,000 est
Greg Alleio NFL PR $200,000 est
NFL Com. Tagliabue $10 million (Troy Vincent, newspapers)
Andre Collins $120,000

NFL spends $20.321 MILLION a year on employees and legal fees devoted to an underlying common cause of opposing the interests of retired and disabled retired NFL players, their widows and survivors.

Groom Law Group and Akin Gump are paid $5.6 MILLION + $160,532 in legal fees directly out of our NFL Player Retirement Plan to defeat the disability claims and other interests of the beneficiaries of their own plan. This is a sick scam. Groom calls themselves “Employee Benefits Experts.”

Groom Law proudly defeated the Steeler’s Mike Webster’s disability claim. Mike then died living in his truck.

Groom Law Groups Doug Ell recalls. “I drafted the new plans, including the first 401(k) in sports, and branched out into disability benefits and annuities to help the players with their retirement.” His work with the NFL players is ongoing—and still immensely rewarding. “There is always something new, like the great new web site that we are designing for the players, and I continue to enjoy the intellectual challenges of litigation, ” he says, and adds with a smile: “It also helps that we have won more than twenty cases on motions for summary judgment without trial.”

I believe these 20 cases were against retired NFL players in disability claims. If your disability case was one of the 20 Groom Law Group’s summary judgment cases please let us know by email bpp12@yahoo.com or telephone 352-378-6348.

“Groom is the best employee benefits firm in the country,” says Groom Law’s Doug Ell, “and we prove it everyday with our depth of experience and expertise.” This is a cruel joke. Groom Law and Ell have done nothing to improve or increase the employee benefits of the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan to the retired players their widows and survivors. Groom Law Group is a devious enemy of the retired players and their widows and survivors advising Upshaw on how to out maneuver (screw over) the retired players and their families.

All of this boils down to 4.18% per year benefit increase that doesn’t even meet the cost of living increases of the last 6 years. (25% divided by 6 years = 4.18%) Several Public Service Unions receive better cost of living increases than this.

Without even examining their “new plans” but considering the Upshaw/Aon/Groom method of operation one can be reasonably sure they will be based on diverting funds that would in previous years have gone into the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan into schemes where the players wind up paying for their own disabilities and annuities from which they will never collect anything except the interest, while Upshaw and his cabal, Groom Law included collect salaries, expenses, and fees from and will manage forever.

Let me know also if the Gooble De Gook PR 25% announcement by Upshaw and the NFL Office influences you to believe that the NFLPA/Upshaw, is representing you the retired players again?