Professional Sports Associations
Ned is a member of the Workers’ Compensation Panels for the NHLPA, NFLPA and PLPA as well as Co-Chair of the PHPA Workers’ Compensation Panel. Additionally, Ned works with the Major League Baseball Players Association and National Basketball Players Association providing counsel to their members on worker compensation issues.
Pro Sports Workers Compensation: Do You Need a Sports Injury Attorney?
Ned Ehrlich is a professional sports injury lawyer representing professional football, hockey, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse players in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. (NY Jets, NY Giants)
You made it. You weren’t afraid to dream big and work hard. You’re a first-class pro sports player. You belong to an elite club of sports professionals who have influenced you your whole life. You can now run, shoot, tackle, and score like the big boys. Yet, all your hard work and sacrifice can go away in a heartbeat from a misstep, a bodily collision, a blow to the head.
Career-ending injuries are always a major risk for athletes.
Professional athletes push their bodies to the limit during both practice and play, so a pro sports injury is always a risk even for repetitive minor injuries. Because competition at all levels is extremely intense and job security is precarious at best, many athletes train year round to maintain precision technique and peak physical condition. Very little downtime from the sport exists at the professional level. Athletes also must conform to regimented diets during their sports season to supplement any physical training program.
Even with all this hard work, competition for professional athlete jobs will continue to be extremely intense; athletes who seek to compete professionally must have extraordinary talent, desire, and dedication to training.
As long as you the professional athlete are playing, scoring, and winning -- the public adores you. But when you stop playing and start limping, the public has short memories. You are scorned and forgotten as the public embraces the next new hottie player.
So, what will happen to you – Mr. Pro Athlete?
There is no such thing as job security for a professional athlete.
You might luck out and be a sports announcer on network television but opportunities are slim as a coach, referee, instructor, or umpire.
Your body is broken, strained, and pained, and in need of much costly physical therapy and rehabilitation. You’re depressed and on pain-killing medication. Your outlook is dreary. With all the coaching and training under your belt – no one told you it would be like this.
If you wake up to find that your wages have stopped and no one is paying your mounting medical bills and you see your career hanging from a thread – contact Ned Ehrlich, pro sports injury lawyer. He’s on your side and sanctioned by the football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and lacrosse players association to help you get the pro sports workers compensation that you deserve.
