Linebacker Was Not Seasonal Worker, Is Due Max Comp Benefits, Court Says

A former NFL linebacker, now a motivational speaker, is due $807 per week in temporary total disability benefits because of a shoulder injury in 2008, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has found. Anthony Trucks, who played two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers, was paid as much as $230,000 annually during his playing days in the National Football League. The Steelers argued that Trucks was due a lower amount of benefits because he was considered a seasonal employee. But a workers' compensation judge in Pennsylvania and the ...