Mealey's (December 23, 2016, 11:28 AM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A disability plan and its administrator are not required to adopt the disability onset date determined by the Social Security Administration (SSA), the plan defendants argue in a Dec. 19 reply brief filed in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, maintaining that a district court erred in finding that the plan defendants are bound by the SSA’s disability onset date (Jesse Solomon v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan, et al., No. 16-1730, 4th Cir.)....