Newly Independent Ball Teams Could End Up in State Insurance Funds

If 42 minor league baseball teams are eventually separated from the support of the big leagues, as has been proposed, many will likely be able to find workers' compensation coverage only through state insurance funds of last resort. And the premiums could be as much as payroll. That's the prognostication from Alex Fairly, head of risk management firm Fairly Group, whose clients have included minor league teams, along with Major League Baseball and the National Football League. But it may be some time before that happens, if at all. Some minor league team owners have said they ar...