Sports Insurance Blog » fundraising http://www.sadlersports.com/blog Sports Insurance Risk Management Advice and Commentary on Current Topics of Interest Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:13:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Report: Recession Impacts Youth Baseball Participation http://www.sadlersports.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/17/report-recession-impacts-youth-baseball-participation/ http://www.sadlersports.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/17/report-recession-impacts-youth-baseball-participation/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:22:59 +0000 admin http://www.sadlersports.com/blog/?p=569 A recent news release by ABC News indicates that many youth baseball leagues are reporting smaller registrations as the recession impacts family spending. In addition, it is reported that team sponsors are becoming more difficult to recruit and league concession sales are on the decline.
 
Some leagues have responded by lowering registration fees and providing scholarships. Others are asking sponsors to contribute less in order to sponsor a team.
 
Do these anecdotal stories reflect isolated pockets or do they reflect a national trend?
 
Steve Keener, President and CEO of Little League, indicated that national registrations are in line with past years but that the trend will need to be watched closely.
 
Could it be that fundraising will become popular again? In past years, fundraising was on the decline as many parents preferred raising the registration fees in lieu of fundraising.
 
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Product liability for sports organizations can arise from the sale of defective products that injures someone away from the premises after control of the product has been relinquished.
 
Common examples include injuries arising from concession sales such as food poisoning or a broken tooth from a hard object hidden in food.  Other exposures can result from the sale of fundraising products, team identity items, and proshop sales.
 
In addition, it is possible for a completed operation of a sports organization to result in liability exposure.   An example would be a construction project off premises such as temporary bleachers or a stage that results in injury.
 
Most sports organizations don’t have a large Product/Completed operations exposure and as a result the minimum recommended limit for the Products/Completed Operations General Aggregate is $1,000,000.
 
 Source:  John Sadler
 
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