Sports Liability Insurance and Its Relation to Sports-Related Errors and Risk Management for the Sports Events
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This paper shows how sports liability insurance has become a key element of sport-related risk protection in almost all sport activities. This paper reviews the protection of amateurism and professionalism provided by sports liability insurance through the crucial aspects of insurance essentials and sports governance. In summary, they make sports liability insurance more coverable, more underwritten and more indemnifiable and the sports liability insurance systems easier to navigate. This paper examines the effective protection provided by individual and organizational liability insurance. This paper also assesses how a category of sports insurance products designed to protect athletes, coaches, sports organizations, and sports event organizers should be developed in Thailand in the future.
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