Developments in Workers Compensation Law Cloud Future for Retired Professional Athletes

By Jonathan L. Israel   Imagine it is 1985. You are 35 years old and play professional football for the New York Giants. In your 10-year career with the team, you played two games in California: in 1978 at the Los Angeles Rams; and in 1984 at the San Francisco 49ers. You decide to retire and move to Florida, where you spend the next 25 years at a sedentary desk job. In 2010, you are 65 years old and short on money; your knees are arthritic and your body aches for reasons you attribute