Quote Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer View Post
Interesting Read:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ance-for-that/

“The premiums can be expensive, perhaps 3 percent for the contract of a position player, 7 percent for a pitcher. Thus, insuring even the first year of Strasburg’s extension, in which he’ll make more than $18.3 million, could cost the Nationals close to $1.3 million. In order for a team to collect on an insurance policy, a player must miss a predetermined number of days — usually around 60. And even then, the club would get back only between 60-80 percent of the player’s salary.”
Insurance companies make money. They aren't in the business of giving out money until they legally have to and that is usually after every loop hole is examined.