Personal Injury & Loss of Career Earnings for Sports Professionals

Introduction

This webinar will walk you through loss of career earnings for sports professionals in the context of personal injury claims. Such claims may encompass past and future loss of earnings, loss of congenial employment, Smith v Manchester and Blamire awards.

Your speakers will share some practical hints and tips, gleaned from running their own cases, including advice on how to get under skin of the facts of each case with detailed analysis of medical records, appearance stats and performance data.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The law (including loss of a chance)
• The anatomy of a claim
• Experts: which experts do you need, and why?
• General principles distilled from case law
• Checklist of issues (i.e., what the evidence needs to cover), to include:
• Claimant-specific factors which impact earning potential
• Sport-specific factors
• Career termination, injury, retirement, etc.
• Case law

This webinar was recorded on 31st October 2022