Player insurance?

[Toronto Blade fan]

Silly question - Do teams insure their players? In the NHL, teams have an option to buy insurance on their players. If a player suffers and injury, the insurance company pays the salary for said player. Is this something that football teams can do?

 

[jt64]

Silly question - Do teams insure their players? In the NHL, teams have an option to buy insurance on their players. If a player suffers and injury, the insurance company pays the salary for said player. Is this something that football teams can do?

There will always be a company that will let you make a badly priced bet on something happening

 

[shorehamview]

Can we get insured against Jack Robinson’s fuck ups?

Where there’s blame there’s a claim, and all that.

 

[Bladesthorpe]

With what their earning the club ought to make them pay their own, if not available stop their pay and let them claim on their personal policy.

 

[Big Hitter]

Of course they insure them.

 

[robbiez666]

I hear we've not bothered to insure Steven's right foot or Sander's head.

 

[Eza Blade]

Nike have made a claim from their insurers regards Moussets boot deal

 

[mancunianblade]

Yes of course there is. Clubs and players both get paid out if they have to retire through injury.

I believe if a player was to come out of an enforced retirement then they would have to pay back any settlement however playing non league football is ok

 

[Bath Blade]

Yes of course there is. Clubs and players both get paid out if they have to retire through injury.

I believe if a player was to come out of an enforced retirement then they would have to pay back any settlement however playing non league football is ok

I vaguely remember a case of a player being paid out, then recovering, but only being able to play non-league otherwise he’d have to repay his pay-out. Can’t remember who it was though.

 

[Toronto Blade fan]

I guess what I am getting at - did insurance pick up Berge's salary when out injured or is it if he had to retire due to injury they would pay?

 

[mancunianblade]

I vaguely remember a case of a player being paid out, then recovering, but only being able to play non-league otherwise he’d have to repay his pay-out. Can’t remember who it was though.

Same here I googled it but all I got was NFL players

 

[Keen Blade]

I hear we've not bothered to insure Steven's right foot or Sander's head.

They are not at risk of anything !

 

[1889]

Silly question - Do teams insure their players? In the NHL, teams have an option to buy insurance on their players. If a player suffers and injury, the insurance company pays the salary for said player. Is this something that football teams can do?

Are you thinking we could take McBurnie and Berge down a deserted lane and ‘torch them’……….sounds like a plan?

 

[Toronto Blade fan]

Are you thinking we could take McBurnie and Berge down a deserted lane and ‘torch them’……….sounds like a plan?

 

[Bath Blade]

Same here I googled it but all I got was NFL players

Just checked, it was Mike Marsh, once of Liverpool. Spent the last few years of his career playing non-league having had an insurance payout for a career ending injury.

 

[Stevo]

Can we get insured against Jack Robinson’s fuck ups?

Where there’s blame there’s a claim, and all that.

We could but the premium would be fucking astronomical, I reckon IRO £1.5M per month

 

[S64 Blade]

They’ll be a market at Lloyd’s for it, I’m sure.

 

[Houston_Blade]

I guess what I am getting at - did insurance pick up Berge's salary when out injured or is it if he had to retire due to injury they would pay?

They just pay an agreed value on retirement due to injury. They won’t be paying wages whilst people are crocked. Insurance companies aren’t daft.

 

[coaxingstar71]

I vaguely remember a case of a player being paid out, then recovering, but only being able to play non-league otherwise he’d have to repay his pay-out. Can’t remember who it was though.

This is true and happened to someone I work with. He had a fairly promising career and played for Barnsley and Rotherham a few times as well as representing England at youth level. However he had a bad knee injury and could only keep the pay out if he never played League football again. He had a few seasons at Ilkeston before packing up completely.

 

[diplomat]

I vaguely remember a case of a player being paid out, then recovering, but only being able to play non-league otherwise he’d have to repay his pay-out. Can’t remember who it was though.

I heard this about Mike marsh. He’d play for whoever won the conference each year (or so it seemed) then dropped back to the conference when they were a league club.

Edit: just seen you add the next post