Insurance Is Not Killing Football And Other Contact Sports—It’s Making Them Safer

By: Joseph Samuel, Esq., Dylan F. Henry, Esq., Kimberly L. Sachs, Esq., of Montgomery McCracken   In January, ESPN’s Outside the Lines reported that the insurance market for football and other high-contact sports was diminishing, placing these sports’ very existence in danger.[1] One insurance executive stated, “If you’re football, hockey, or soccer the insurance business doesn’t want you.” The article suggested that insurance companies were no longer willing to cover brain inju