No insurance, no football ... no hockey ... at any level ...
Posted on 01/29/2019 2:11:22 PM PST by Zakeet
Pro sports is seen as the next step in [Las Vegas’] evolution. ... What could go wrong?
Insurance? Or, lack of it? Insurers are leaving the football market fearing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is the new asbestos.
Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada wrote in a spectacular 'outside the lines' piece for ESPN+,
To an increasing number of carriers, football is a dam built atop an earthquake fault. A disaster might never occur, but the specter of huge potential losses is scaring many companies away.
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It's not just CTE. CTE isn't going to be the expensive part," said one insurance executive who spoke to Outside the Lines on the condition of anonymity. "Dementia and every case of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's are going to be blamed on football. There will be a bevy of doctors in California and other states, and they're going to say, 'I'm sure it was because you played football.'”
There was a time when insurers lined up to provide the NFL with General Liability and Workman's Compensation coverage. Now there is only one carrier writing this business, without an exclusion for head trauma, Berkeley Entertainment & Sports. Not exactly a household name.
"I don't want to use the word 'meltdown,' but there's a panic in the market," said consultant Lee Gaby.
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Like asbestos-related diseases, CTE can take years to develop, increasing the possibility of decades of litigation. The pool of potential claimants is in the millions - theoretically, any athlete - with a variety of potential legal targets.
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It is not just NFL, college, high school and Pop Warner football participants at risk. HBO’s Real Sports highlighted the risks NHL hockey players are taking. NHL brass has denied any connection between CTE and hockey. NFL owners engaged in the same denials for years.
(Excerpt) Read more at mises.org ...
No insurance, no football ... no hockey ... at any level ...
Include soccer and lacrosse.
They will self-insure, just like most states.
Multi-billion dollar operations do not go quietly into that good night.
This is your brain. This is your brain on football. Any questions?
Any time I sat in on a board meeting for my company and somebody brought up doing something different, the first question always asked was, “what is our liability?”
Kamala Harris and MEDICARE FOR ALL to the rescue! /sarc
From here
My first job at the hospital that I stayed with for 25 years was working for the Neuropathologist...a neuropathologist being a physician who specializes in diagnosing brain and nervous system disorders with microscopes (among other things).One only need think back to Cassius Clay (I refuse to use his other name) to see what blows to the head can do.At age 50 he was an absolute vegetable.
>>Kamala Harris and MEDICARE FOR ALL to the rescue! /sarc<<
That will pay for treating all the STDs she scatters.
NFFL
National Flag Football League.
Or
Do you like the military and slap a Maximum Allowable Weight on all players (MAW)
Maybe even categorize the MAW by position.
I’d kinda miss HS and College Football
Pros, not so much
But if it true that the kids will grow demented
much earlier than they might have...
I don’t know
...Although preliminary evidence suggests that imaging technologies may be able to detect CTE in living people, the only proven way to diagnose the condition at this time is through an autopsy, says Dr. DeKosky. During life, however, CTE can produce a range of neurologic symptoms, including depression, memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, parkinsonism, and eventually progressive dementia. Some people with CTE have committed suicide.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104
... In a convenience sample of 202 deceased players of American football from a brain donation program, CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177 players across all levels of play (87%), including 110 of 111 former National Football League players (99%).
...Nearly all of the former NFL players in this study had CTE pathology, and this pathology was frequently severe. These findings suggest that CTE may be related to prior participation in football and that a high level of play may be related to substantial disease burden.
It's not as if they're using their brains for anything.
Maybe the football helmet is to blame.
Imagine the lines at the neurology units for all the fans that would bash their skulls in by beating them on floors, tables, walls, etc. We must ban all contact sports. For the children. (duck)
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion?
Well, I guess that can happen when they play in Miami in the summer then cart off to Wisconsin in October.
Downhill skiing too.. (link on Drudge)
Gwyneth Paltrow sued for ‘hit and run’ ski accident; ‘Brain injury, broken ribs’...
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/01/29/utah-man-is-suing/
Guess you never saw Shoeny put Cashman through the Zamboni boards.
That, was important ;-)
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