Statute · New York Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling
N.Y. Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling § 28-a — Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and professional wrestlers
N.Y. Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling § 28-a
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- New York Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling
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- New York
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- Nov 4, 2026 (NY Senate Open Legislation)
* § 28-a. Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and professional wrestlers. 1. All persons, parties or corporations having licenses as promoters or who are licensed in accordance with section 28-b of this act shall continuously provide insurance for the protection of licensed boxers and…
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N.Y. Boxing, Sparring and Wrestling § 28-a — Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and professional wrestlers is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
* § 28-a. Duty to provide insurance for licensed boxers and professional wrestlers. 1. All persons, parties or corporations having licenses as promoters or who are licensed in accordance with section 28-b of this act shall continuously provide insurance for the protection of licensed boxers and professional wrestlers, appearing in boxing bouts or wrestling exhibitions. Such insurance coverage shall provide for reimbursement to the licensed athlete for medical, surgical and hospital care, with a minimum limit of seven thousand five hundred dollars for injuries sustained while participating in any program operated under the control of such licensed promoter and for a payment of one hundred thousand dollars to the estate of any deceased athlete where such death is occasioned by injuries received in this state during the course of a program in which such licensed athlete or professional wrestler participated under the promotion or control of any licensed promoter. The commission may from time to time, in its discretion, increase the amount of such minimum limits.
2. The failure to provide such insurance as is required by subdivision one of this section shall be cause for the suspension or the revocation of the license of such defaulting promoter.
* NB Repealed September 1, 2016