By Gregory H. Horowitz and Jason J. Moreira The TCPA Coverage Landscape By now, virtually every team owner, sports industry executive, and league risk manager is aware of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the potentially enormous class...
A federal judge from the Northern District of Illinois has denied an insurance provider’s motion to dismiss the claim of a professional hockey player who lost sight in an eye after an incident on the ice. The player’s claim that the provider negligently failed...
By Lorelie S. Masters, Michael S. Levine, and Tae Andrews Recent catastrophic weather events and trends stress the importance of carrying event-cancellation insurance for professional sports organizations and stadium owners. Event-cancellation insurance...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Jordan M. Cohen has been one of the more active workers’ compensation attorneys representing retired professional athletes in recent years. His name would be instantly recognized by countless workers’ compensation defense firms and...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Background These pages have previously recorded the workers’ compensation gold rush that awaited retired professional athletes in California. As noted, for many years all that a retired athlete had to show was that he or she...
A California state appeals court has reversed a trial court and found that a group of insurance companies are not entitled to certain discovery from Riddell, Inc. and other football helmet manufacturers (Riddell) since it could unfairly expose Riddell in related...
A Florida state appeals court has reversed the opinion of a trial court, finding that a football player in a workers’ compensation case was not entitled to benefits after he was injured during a tryout with an Arena Football League (AFL) team. In remanding the...
A panel of judges with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the ruling of a district judge that the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Retirement Plan and the NFL Player Supplemental Disability Plan (The Plan) abused its discretion when it denied disability...
By Richard C. Giller, Esq. On May 17, 2017, former Penn State University linebacker and current undrafted NFL free-agent Nyeem Wartman-White filed a lawsuit against International Specialty Insurance, Inc. in federal court in Pennsylvania seeking a payout under...
Every high school and junior high school student-athlete in Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association member schools will be covered by concussion insurance beginning Aug. 1, 2017. The WIAA noted that “for years” it “has been at the forefront of...
By Steven Stamps, of The Law Office of Ricky D. Green, PLLC The Court of Appeals of Ohio, Tenth Appellate District, Franklin County, has upheld a decision of a magistrate that a former Cleveland Browns player’s 2005 football injury was a lost time workers’...
By Shomari D. Hearn, CFP®, EA Professional athletes often receive special treatment in recognition of their outstanding skill. But does that mean they should receive special treatment from state legislators too? The question is complicated. For a prime...
