NFL Health Plan, Cigna Avoid Turning Over Documents to Clinic

The NFL Player Insurance Plan and Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. don’t have to turn over documents to a medical clinic that accused them of withholding payments in retaliation for the clinic’s cooperation with players’ disability claims.

Documents sought by Advanced Physicians SC are subject to the attorney-client privilege and don’t have to be produced in court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas held. An exception to the attorney-client privilege that requires disclosure from fiduciaries of employee benefit plans didn’t apply in this case, Magistrate Judge Rebecca Rutherford said in an April 17 order.

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