Protection for Play: Student-Athletes and the Renewed Fight for Workers’ Compensation Benefits
The National Collegiate Athlete Association (“NCAA”) has a longstanding history of denying employment-related benefits to student-athletes. Student-athletes have never been able to claim employment status at the university they attend. Accordingly, injured student-athletes have traditionally been unable to make a claim for workers’ compensation benefits. The theory and rationale behind denying student-athletes employment status at the university they attended is based on the idea of [...]
