The Golden State’s Golden Payouts No Longer Available to All Retired Athletes

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 played a single game in California and the courthouse doors flung open wide. The state’s largess was all the more appealing to retired athletes since for all practical purposes California did not start the statute of limitation