BOSTON -- A Florida woman has filed for an order of protection against New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss, but Moss denied the allegations Wednesday.

Rachelle Washington, 35, of Fort Lauderdale, said in an affidavit in Broward County that Moss committed battery on her, causing serious injury and refusing to allow her to seek medical help.

Radio station 580 WDBO in Florida reported that Moss was served with a temporary injunction and ordered to not come within 500 feet of Washington or use or possess firearms, the station reported.

The Boston Herald reported that the woman said the incident occurred on Jan. 6 at her home. The Patriots were in the middle of a bye week at the time before their first playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

No criminal charges have been filed. A hearing was set for Jan. 28 to determine whether to make the injunction permanent.

Moss responded to the allegations to a group of reporters at Gillette Stadium.

"First of all, you all probably heard about these allegations. All I want to say is that they are false allegations," Moss said.

Moss said that he doesn't know exactly what has been alleged, but he said he and his attorneys were called and warned that the story would go public unless he gave the woman money.

"All I know is that it's a friend of mine, a young lady, it was an accident where she hurt herself, to where they called me, called my attorneys, trying to get X amount of dollars out of me, and if 'we don't get X amount of dollars' they were going to go to the press before this game," Moss said.

Moss denied harming the woman.

"That's really not my makeup," Moss said. "That's not me. I've never been in that situation where I've had to put my hands on any woman, any lady."

He said that he spoke with coach Bill Belichick about the matter.

"It's very unfair to athletes if a person makes a false claim. You know, there's nothing that we can do," Moss said. "The only thing that we can do is either pay up or sit back and listen to what's being said or what's being written."

For someone to make a false claim about me, I'm kind of furious," he said. "It kind of hurts me deep inside for someone to do something like that because, you know, I've always said time and time again, I'm going to stand up for what's right. If I'm right, I'm right. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong."

The Patriots are preparing to play the San Diego Chargers this weekend in the AFC Championship Game.