N.F.L. INS. LTD. BY LINES v. B & B HOLDINGS, INC.

No. 91 Civ. 8580 (PKL).

874 F.Supp. 606 (1995)

N.F.L. INSURANCE LTD. (In Liquidation), By David E.W. LINES and Peter C.B. Mitchell, Joint Liquidators, Plaintiff, v. B & B HOLDINGS, INC., f/k/a St. Louis Football Cardinals, Inc., d/b/a Phoenix Cardinals, the Chicago Bears Football Club, Inc., d/b/a the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Ltd., J.W.J., Corp., general partner and/or Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Inc., d/b/a the Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Inc., d/b/a the Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City Chiefs Football Club Inc., d/b/a the Kansas City Chiefs, K.M.S. Patriots, L.P., Victor Kiam, II, Fran Murray, general partners, d/b/a the New England Patriots, Los Angeles Rams Football Co., Inc., d/b/a the Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Ltd., Robbie Sports Corp., South Florida Sports Corp., general partners, d/b/a the Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings Football Club, Inc., d/b/a the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles Football Club, Inc., d/b/a the Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers Sports Inc., d/b/a the Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco Forty-Niners, Ltd., the San Francisco Forty-Niners, Inc., general partner, d/b/a the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Inc., d/b/a the Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Area NFL Football, Inc., d/b/a the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, NFL Management Council Inc., the National Football League, Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner, William Bidwill, John M. Donlan, Susan T. Fletcher, Harry T. Gamble, Ward E. Holland, Robert Irsay, Michael E. Lynn, III, Michael McCormack, John Nordstrom, Theodore Phillips, John Schoemer, Keith Simon, Donald Steadman, Patrick Sullivan, Dennis P. Thimmons, Jerome R. Vainisi, and J.A. Zygmunt, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 26, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for plaintiff (Dennis P. Orr, David Sorokoff, and Patrick J. Corcoran, of counsel).

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, New York City, for defendants (Harold G. Levison, Michael C. Harwood, and Elizabeth I. Hook, of counsel).


OPINION AND ORDER

LEISURE, District Judge.

Plaintiff N.F.L. Insurance Ltd. ("NFLIL"), represented by its liquidators, brings this action against fourteen teams of the National Football League (the "NFL"), the NFL, the NFL Management Council ("NFLMC"), and seventeen members of NFLIL's Board of Directors. NFLIL is a Bermuda mutual insurance company and was organized as part of a program to self-insure the participating teams' workers' compensation risks...

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