There was once a time where UK-based Lloyd's of London famously insured professional wrestlers. In 1991, Curt Hennig took out an insurance policy on himself prior to his WWF return. Unfortunately for the wrestling industry, by 1993, Hennig had injured his back yet again. However fortunately for Hennig, he retired and collected payments from his insurance policy until 1997. Lloyd's of London no longer insures pro wrestlers (The Road Warriors were other famous Lloyd's clients), but if the pro wrestling industry were to present a significant number of talents who could be insured at various rates and levels of insurance - and who likely wouldn't be able to wrestle without first being insured - it's almost certain that mix of domestic/US and global insurance companies would likely jump at the chance of being involved. While it would be expected that performers performing fewer dates would pay higher premiums (t makes sense), the ability for say, an insured. always-on-the-road, CM Punk to be able to find a doctor under his insurance that wasn't Chris Amman to diagnose his staph infection should have occurred. Nobody is infallible. If a performer feels that they are being misdiagnosed, then they absolutely reserve the right to seek a second opinion. A safe wrestler is a spectacular one, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
