Nationwide Workers’ Comp Solutions for Sports Leagues
A professional sports league may have players and coaches based in numerous states while competing throughout the country. Workers’ compensation requirements and treatment of professional athletes can vary by jurisdiction, making a coordinated approach especially important for multi-state leagues and teams.
PEO Insurance Brokers Network specializes in multi-state workers’ compensation risks and can help agents evaluate coverage solutions for leagues and teams operating throughout the United States.
For organizations seeking an alternative to relying exclusively on individual state programs, our network provides access to private-market and PEO-based workers’ compensation solutions based on the organization’s structure, employees, locations, payroll, and risk profile.
Workers’ Compensation for Players and Coaches
Coverage needs in professional sports extend beyond the athletes on the field or court. Coaches are employees of many professional leagues and teams and can also face work-related injury exposure during practices, games, travel, training, demonstrations, and other team activities.
We can help agents pursue workers’ compensation solutions covering eligible:
- Professional players and athletes
- Minor league players
- Head coaches
- Assistant coaches
- Skills and position coaches
- Training and practice personnel
- Other eligible employees of the league or team
Coverage availability and requirements depend on the organization, employment arrangement, state requirements, and underwriting guidelines.
Sports We Can Help Cover
Workers’ Compensation for Volleyball Players and Teams
Professional volleyball combines jumping, rapid lateral movement, diving, and repetitive overhead motion. We can help agents seeking workers’ compensation solutions for men’s and women’s professional volleyball leagues, teams, players, and coaches.
Workers’ Compensation for Softball Players and Teams
Professional and minor league softball organizations may need coverage for players, coaches, and other employees throughout practices, games, training, and travel. We can assist with both single-state and multi-state softball organizations.
Workers’ Compensation for Minor League Baseball
Minor league and independent baseball organizations can present challenging workers’ compensation exposures because of athletic injuries, seasonal employment, travel, and multi-state operations. We help agents pursue workers’ comp options for baseball leagues, teams, players, and coaching staffs.
Workers’ Compensation for Minor League Basketball
From practices and conditioning to games and travel, basketball organizations face significant injury exposure. PEO Insurance Brokers Network can help place workers’ compensation coverage for professional and minor league basketball teams, players, and coaches.
Workers’ Compensation for Tennis
Professional tennis leagues, teams, and organizations require coverage capable of addressing the physical demands of competitive play along with travel and multi-state operations. We can help agents find workers’ comp solutions for tennis players, coaches, and eligible employees.
Workers’ Compensation for Lacrosse
The speed and physical contact involved in professional lacrosse can make these accounts difficult to place. Our network can help agents seek workers’ compensation coverage for lacrosse leagues, clubs, athletes, and coaches.
Workers’ Compensation for Soccer
Professional and minor league soccer teams have substantial exposure to injuries involving the knees, ankles, muscles, head, and other parts of the body. We can help agents pursue workers’ comp solutions for men’s and women’s soccer leagues, teams, players, and coaches.
Workers’ Compensation for Pickleball, Paddle and Wiffle Ball
Emerging professional sports can be particularly challenging because traditional carriers may have limited underwriting history for the class. We can help agents explore workers’ compensation options for newer and rapidly growing professional leagues, including pickleball, paddle and platform tennis, and Wiffle Ball organizations.
Workers’ Compensation for Men’s and Women’s Professional Sports
Our solutions are not limited by the gender of the athletes. We work with agents representing men’s professional sports leagues, women’s professional sports leagues, mixed organizations, and individual teams.
As women’s professional sports and newer professional leagues continue to expand, organizations need workers’ compensation programs capable of keeping pace with growing rosters, new markets, and increasingly complex employment structures.
