Associated Press reports that former professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mitch Lyons, whose career ended Dec. 18, 1999, because of injury, is challenging Pennsylvania's workers' compensation law.Lyons claims the law is unfair to certain professional athletes. A Pennsylvania workers' compensation law instituted in the 1993 reform limits benefits for partially disabled players from the NFL, NHL, NBA and major league baseball. Athletes in those professional leagues, while averaging 8 times the statewide average, have their average weekly wage limited for purposes of compensa...
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