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Football club lose multi-million pound compensation claim

Premier League football club Blackburn Rovers have lost a £4million compensation claim in the High Court.

The Lancashire outfit were making the claim against an insurance company that refused to payout after their international striker, Martin Dahlin, suffered a back injury in a training ground fall nine years ago.

The fall prompted the beginning of the culmination of the Swede’s career, and Blackburn began their compensation claim after the insurers deemed that Dahlin was not covered by their policy because he had a pre-existing degenerative disc condition.

Avon Insurance relied on a clause in their contract with the club that excludes them from making a payout for arthritic or other degenerative conditions in bones, joints, muscles, ligaments or tendons, although Blackburn argued that Dahlin’s pre-existing condition was no more than ordinary wear and tear.

Martin Dahlin, who scored four goals in 26 appearances for the Premier League club, was sold to a German team in 1998 but barely played and retired the following season. A holder of 60 international caps for Sweden, he now works as a football agent.

Blackburn Rovers declined to comment to the press after the failed compensation claim.