Perspective
Dec. 24, 2013
Athletes injured on job losing sway in California
A recent ruling is the latest in a series of setbacks to injured athletes seeking to benefit from the state's athlete-friendly workers' compensation scheme. By Jeremy R. Lacks
This month, a California appellate court dealt another blow to professional athletes of visiting teams seeking to collect disability benefits for injuries they claim were suffered within the state. Adrienne Johnson, a retired women's professional basketball player formerly of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, played only one game in California during the 2003 season but, under California's "cumulative trauma" theory of disabilit...
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