Fighting Fees, NFL Plan Urges 5th Circuit To Say Disability Claimant Had No Success

( May 20, 2025, 11:33 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — In its appellant brief urging the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse an award of more than $1.25 million in attorney fees and costs, the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan called the award “an unprecedented expansion of the availability of attorney’s fees to ERISA litigants who do not succeed on any legal claim and obtain no judicial relief.”...