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Keeping sports in the running.

The amateur sports industry is suffering due to the lack of liability capacity in the sector. One of the only ways for sports clubs to get off their marks is to implement risk management strategies. Alan Hootton suggests the UK market should look at the Australian example.

In Australia, the contraction of the liability insurance market
allied to the marked increase in the number of claims being presented has
hit the amateur sports industry hard. With all the changes

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