WorkCompCentral recently reported that professional football players used a loophole in Missouri law to sue the Kansas City Chiefs for negligence relating to their head injuries. For more than 20 years, football-induced concussions went from a topic of nervous humor to a class-action settlement a few months ago. The National Football League, depending on one’s point of view, has diligently addressed this risk, mimicked the evasions of Big Tobacco, or behaved somewhere in between.With striking similarities and contrasts and over the same decades, the workers’ compensation industry w...
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