A Virginia state appeals court has affirmed the ruling of the Workers’ Compensation Commission that a former professional football player, who suffered an injury while playing for the practice squad of the Washington Redskins, was not entitled to wage loss...
By Steven Stamps The California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, upheld a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board awarding workers’ compensation benefits to Durand Macklin, a former NBA player. In 2011, Durand Macklin filed a...
By Alla Barbalat, Esq. California Workers’ Compensation benefits can provide relief for retired professional athletes who often have no other option for covering their medical expenses. California recognizes cumulative trauma claims allowing employees to...
By Eric Farber For retired professional athletes September 15, 2013 was a critical day. This day was denoted in California Assembly Bill 1309 (AB 1309) as the date the proposed legislation will take effect. This is an important cutoff for those with the chronic...
By Steven Stamps, ESQ A three judge panel in the Court of Appeals of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit has upheld a judgment from the Office of Workers’ Compensation denying benefits to a former New Orleans Saints player, Dan Campbell. The judges, Susan Chehardy, Robert...
A federal judge from the Western District of Missouri has confirmed an arbitration award, requiring a group of players to litigate their workers compensation claims under Missouri law as opposed to California law, which would be more favorable to them. ...
The players unions for professional football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer have sent a memo to California lawmakers, urging them to vote no on a workers compensation bill that would gut that state’s unique law, which protects professional athletes on teams...
By Eric Farber & Ron Mahurin In our last article for Sports Litigation Alert, we discussed the effect of Mathews v. Tennessee Titans on California Pro-Athlete Workers’ Compensation – Taking Stock of the 9th Circuit’s Decision in the Matthews Case, Volume...
By Eric Farber & Jon Varnica As injury claims have mounted, the NFL and the individual teams have fought these cases with little success. In the past few years, the NFL and its management council have attempted to derail the cases by arguing that the...
The Supreme Court of Maine has affirmed the ruling of a hearing officer with the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board, who had held that the board had jurisdiction over the Houston Astros for purposes of a player’s workers’ compensation benefits and the payment of...
