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2004 June 12
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June 14
If you need special risk insurance that you do not see on this list, please
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June 28
Online international travel medical insurance for individuals and groups added. Complete all the paperwork online. Look for it in our program list, below.


 

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Reduce Sports Injuries:
Be Cautious!

Some estimate that 12 million students between 5 and 22 will suffer a sports-related injury this year, playing everything from baseball to hockey.

Dr David H Janda, an Ann Arbor, Michigan orthopedic surgeon and director for The Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine reports that this is the most under-recognized major public health problem in the United States. Further, he states, 80 to 90 percent of these injuries are preventable by simply being aware.

His book, The Awakening of a Surgeon—A Family Guide To Preventing Sports Injuries And Death (Institute of Preventative Sports Medicine, 2003) provides a 20-point injury prevention checklist that you too can implement.

Following his list may raise the bar in your community, because his bar is high for everyone involved. For example, he recommends that coaches must be certified in CPR techniques, and that they use beach balls instead of soccer balls for “header” drills.

Janda also recommends breakaway bases in baseball and softball, padded goalposts in soccer and football, and proper use of helmets in all the sports that require their use.

Most importantly, Dr Janda recommends that anyone taking part in a sport or athletic activity take a pre-partaicipation physical. Other important recommendations include drinking lots of water for participants, and equipping every field, gymnasium, hockey rink and sports complex with automatic external defibrillators—machines used to shock hearts back to work—for sports organizers and promoters.







Looking for Special Risk Insurance?

We have specialized in insuring institutions, teams, schools, colleges and individuals since 1966. Our experience has taught us how to tailor insurance programs to fit the geography’s health care cost structure.

We are a long-standing Lloyds of London correspondent.

Unlike other insurance providers, we feel that a personal, free consultation with an underwriter brings about the highest quality coverage with minimum premiums. On every page, you’ll see that there are three ways to contact us.

Please request your personal, free consultation; we are happy to talk you out of coverage that you do not need.

Here are a few of our programs:

Last Update 2004 June 29