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A Florida claimant, who was injured during tryouts for a professional football team, was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits from the Arena Football League when the League had not signed the standard player contract. While a claimant did not always need a formal employment contract to be considered an employee, such a contract could not be enforced against a nonsignatory. Here the player and the team signed the contract, but no one signed on behalf of the League. Allowing the claimant to participate in a tryout did not show assent to hire the player as a skilled football player for the duration of a football season.
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is the co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).
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See Arena Football League v. Bishop, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 8126 (June 6, 2017)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 64.01.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law