Class Certification, Summary Judgment Denied In Suit Over NFL Disability Denials

( January 29, 2026, 1:52 PM EST) -- BALTIMORE — Finding that “the commonality and typicality prerequisites are not met here,” a Maryland federal judge on Jan. 28 declined to certify “a class spanning over five decades of NFL players” in a suit over NFL disability benefits; in separate rulings the same day, she denied three motions in which the defendants sought summary judgment and denied the plaintiffs’ motion to strike two declarations submitted in support of the summary judgment motions....