Look for federal legislation soon mandating this type coverage in every state.

Ah, to be part of the entitled, rich elite.

Too bad for those not so rich fans whose taxes pay for this. They should feel lucky these athletes played in California.

Worker´s comp for a high risk employee of any kind is not the problem.

The ability to shop around and pick it up in more than one state is.

Re #1, ??? All 50 states and the District of Columbia have workers´ compensation programs.

#3 should have included that the ability to collect for cumulative effects is also problematic.

In industrial accidents and injuries, the employer is expected to make changes to protect the worker(s) from such injuries. Professional sports fly in the face of that requirement.

Athletes and their agents defend their salaries based in part on the risk of the endeavor. It it´s insured, then that argument is phony.

#´s 1 and 2 should be made aware of that "hero" fireman in New York City who runs in marathons while collecting "disability" checks from the just as stupid New Yorkers. Gets tiresome hearing the California bashing while Bloomberg is actually more stoopid than Gov. Brown and such.

Almost anywhere this would be a simple fix. On CA, a mistake that costs employers millions will be claimed to be "cutting edge" and "progressive."

I pay 3 levels of workers comp for employees who do different jobs. The rates range from 1.5% of payroll to 11% of payroll with clerical at low end and moderate construction/maintenace at high end.

I get rated, I get charged. As an employer, I pay different rates depending on what statee the work is performed.

A big reason that pro sports hand entertainment as become a batleground is that the atheletes are treatedd like resident when a game is played. So, in CA they grab 13% of the money assumed to be connected with the game/activity.

The "cumulative" injuries tweak is the killer here. The article should have begun with how much visiting workers pay in in all taxes and workers comp and note they get no services for huge sums deducted.

On a smaller note, Davis will pee this money away and remain friendless.

I wonder is this is one reason no one is rushing to put a football team in LA. All the costs - hidden and otherwise - make it prohibitive despite the massive size of the TV market.

#4 and #7. FTA: But California is one of the few that provides additional payments for the cumulative effect of injuries that occur over years of playing. There has to be a limit to WC payments for professional athletes. My comment should have added /s.

I don´t know the WC rules in California but can´t imagine that they vary greatly from state to state. In Michigan, if you are injured as a result of an on-the-job accident, you will receive 80% of your average weekly pay based on your last 26 weeks worked. Now, if ol´ Terrell here hasn´t worked since retirement but claims that he´d REALLY like to , they may well be using an average from back in 1995. Faced with this exceptionally high weekly payout, the workers comp carrier may negotiate a lump sum payment. It´s done all the time- based on actuarial formulas that only lawyers can understand and/or manipulate. Or , so it seems.

#7 is right. These "hero" firemen get away with that and a lot more because the media will never cover what goes on cuz it´s New York and unions.

This just invites the state in to say football is unsafe and must be modified so that football workers must ask permission of other football workers if they can touch or tackle them during games at only a certain regulated pressure point. Or else the sport will be banned. That´s government logic at work and don´t be surprised if this kind of worker´s comp abuse yields just this sort of nanny-state response.

It´s one thing to have government workers sitting on their butts, but it´s doubly bad when they´re handing out money willy-nilly.