Football Player’s Insurance Claim Sacked

Nearly four years after a former Arena Football League player was injured while trying to regain a roster spot with the Orlando Predators, a state appeals court Tuesday rejected his workers’ compensation insurance claim. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a judge’s ruling that supported workers’ compensation benefits for Bryon Bishop, a former lineman for the Predators who was injured in July 2013 as he worked out with the team. The appeals court concluded that Bishop was not an employee of the Arena Football League. Bishop and a Predators coach had signed a contract, but the document had not been signed by a league official.