#10 - The Legal Loophole Football Leagues Use to Dodge Player Injuries.

Every week, professional athletes break their bodies for our entertainment. So it will come as a huge shock to sports fans how poorly the law protects our sporting heroes.

In this episode:

• How our sporting codes lobbied to carve athletes out of injury protection in the 1970s
• How a Carlton player briefly cracked that system open in the 2000s before it slammed shut again, and
• Why the concussion crisis gripping the AFL and NRL is forcing a reckoning today.

If you're paid to play, and paid to get hurt, why aren't you protected when the damage is done?

Guest: Associate Professor Eric Windholz, Monash University Law School

Case: Whitehead v Carlton Football Club Ltd [2005] VSC 257

Further reading

• Why sports stars get less support than other injured workers – and how we can fix it by Eric Windholz
• Professional athletes and injury insurance: A better way forward by Eric Windholz

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