Former Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser had to retire due to back issues, and today, the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan reports that DeKeyser has been forced to sue the insurance company that’s handling disability payments regarding his career-ending injury:
Former Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser is suing HCC Life Insurance Company for $680,000 over disability payments.
The 15-page lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, accuses “a breach of the terms of a professional hockey player’s occupation-specific and sport disability insurance contract.”
“The purpose of this case is to compel Defendant HCC Life Insurance Company to provide certain long-term disability benefits in the amounts and at the coverage levels promised, as well as for an accounting, and an award of attorney fees and costs incurred as a consequence of Defendant’s failure to do so,” the lawsuit said.
DeKeyser, 34, from Macomb Township, joined the Wings in 2013 and played through the 2021-22 season.
