Insurance news about Olympic hockey shows costs are thinning the ice

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In order to ensure that the Sochi Olympics hockey tournament can proceed, the IOC is paying $8 million in coverage. The International Olympics Committee is making insurance news at the moment as it faces a bill of an estimated $8 million in order to pay for adequate coverage in order to ensure that the hokey tournament can continue in Sochi, Russia, next year. This announcement was made following what was called the world’s most expensive ball hockey game, in Calgary, Canada. When the Canadian Olympic hockey team gathered in Calgary…

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Insurance coverage needed before NHL hockey players can head to the Olympics

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The policies and the travel costs are all that is left standing in the way of the participation in Sochi. The NHL Players’ Association and the National Hockey League sat down on Friday to talk to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The goal was to sort out the issues that were still outstanding regarding the costs of the insurance coverage for the multimillion dollar protection that the players would require in order to take part in the Winter Olympics in 2014. The…

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