WTH?

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So grabbed my coffee this morning and took 10 minutes to search out this legislation.

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/135/hb31

Quote:(K) An employer, upon the approval of the
administratordirector, may provide for workers' compensation
coverage for the employer's employees who are professional
athletes and coaches by submitting to the administrator director
proof of coverage under a league policy issued under the laws of
another state under either of the following circumstances: 
(1) The employer administers the payroll and workers' compensation insurance for a professional sports team subject to a collective bargaining agreement, and the collective bargaining agreement provides for the uniform administration of workers' compensation benefits and compensation for professional athletes.  
(2) The employer is a professional sports league, or is a member team of a professional sports league, and all of the following apply:
    (a) The professional sports league operates as a single entity, whereby all of the players and coaches of the sports league are employees of the sports league and not of the individual member teams. 
   (b) The professional sports league at all times maintains workers' compensation insurance that provides coverage for the players and coaches of the sports league. 
   ( c ) Each individual member team of the professional sports league, pursuant to the organizational or operating documents of the sports league, is obligated to the sports league to pay to the sports league any workers' compensation claims that are not covered by the workers' compensation insurance maintained by the sports league. 

If the administrator director approves the employer's proof of coverage submitted under division (K) of this section, a professional athlete or coach who is an employee of the employer and the dependents of the professional athlete or coach are not entitled to apply for and shall not receive compensation or benefits under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. The rights of such an athlete or coach and the dependents of such an athlete or coach under the laws of the state where the policy was issued are the exclusive remedy against the employer for the athlete or coach if the athlete or coach suffers an injury or contracts an occupational disease in the course of employment, or for the dependents of the athlete or the coach if the athlete or coach is killed as a result of an injury or dies as a result of an occupational disease, regardless of the location where the injury was suffered or the occupational disease was contracted.