Packers' Payroll Means Lower Rates for Contact Sports in Badger State

It would follow logically, Tad Cleveland says, that a contact sport team would be a riskier insurance prospect than a non-contact team. And in at least Minnesota, Massachusetts and North Carolina, the ratings for those teams reflect that thought.But not in Wisconsin. In America's Dairyland, where workers' compensation insurance rates are dictated instead of set on the open market, the base rate for a non-contact sports team is more than seven times higher than for a contact team − thanks to the Green Bay Packers.According to Cleveland, vice president of technical services for the...