GAA Injury Benefit Fund 2025
Claims Administration for claims with Injury Dates from June 1, 2025 – Allianz are now the appointed claims administrators
- As noted on the previous communication issued, the injured player or a parent \ guardian where the player is U18 at the injury date will be registering and managing their Injury Fund claims from June 1, 2025. Please see attached the 2025 GAA Injury Benefit Fund summary document which outlines the terms and benefits of the Fund. The document is also available on the QR Code below. The injured player or a parent \ guardian notifying the claim where the player is U18 at the injury has 60 days from the injury date to register the claim. The injury date is day 1. This is the only timeline notification for the claims reporting. It would be hoped as well that whilst the claims notification action on Foireann will be used for Injury Fund claims notifications, that GAA units may also use it as a way of managing injuries within their respective unit.
- Notification of the claims will be via Foireann and therefore, it’s important that each player has been registered on Foireann for 2025 and has an active membership number against their record. Please see a link to a video which shows the claims notification process via Foireann https://youtu.be/VUiSDqkZpj4 Details are also available on the helpful link below.
- Once the player registers the claim, the GAA unit will still need to validate and approve it in the same way that the player transfers process, vetting process works. Please see a link to a video which shows the claims validation process. https://youtu.be/YwkzvyUOx44 Details are also available on the helpful link below. Please note that it is only when a claim is validated, will it go to Allianz for administration. If A GAA Unit has not paid their 2025 GAA Injury Fund Fees, the claim cannot be validated until such time as the fees are paid. Thank you to the units that have paid their fees to date. August 8, 2025, is the deadline date for fees to be paid.
- Please see attached a poster template for you to put up in your respective GAA unit \ communicate with your players. We will be issuing further supports to you to assist with educating your players \ parents \ guardians on these changes. Details will also be available on Tobar.
Claims Administration for claims with Injury dates – June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2025 – The Leeson Group are the appointed claims administrators for the legacy claims
- The GAA has appointed the Leeson Group to manage the legacy claims with an injury date from June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2025. Your unit will receive an email from the Leeson Group to access their claims portal which will show claims outstanding and an option to notify any new claims with an injury date up to May 31, 2025.
- The GAA unit is still responsible for managing these claims and you will be able to upload the relevant claims documents required to resolve these claims.
- The Leeson group can be contacted by phoning 353 1 914 4415 or via email Gaa.injury@leesongroup.com
Claims Administration for open claims with an injury date prior to May 31, 2023 – The GAA are handling these claims in house
- The GAA are handling any open claims with an Injury date prior to May 31, 2023. We are robustly audited on the Fund a number of times a year and questions always arise with regards to holding funds open for legacy claims. It is the intention now for the GAA to work through these cases with the relevant GAA unit to see why these cases are still open and to work on closing them off ahead of the financial year end \ year end audit.
- Once we review the cases, we will be contacting the GAA unit on them. However, if any GAA unit has documentation that they wish to send on in relation to these claims, please email ciara.clarke@gaa.ie
Why we are making these changes
As part of the assessment of GAA Injury Benefit Fund claims, personal individual information which is senistive data is required such as medical information, salary information, private medical insurance policy information, RSI detail etc. Following independent reviews on the claims process, it was deemed that owing to the GDPR requirements around managing this data, GAA unit secretaries \ injury fund administraors should not be handling this information and only the person who owns the information such as the injured player or a person oblidged to act on behalf of an injured player such as a parent \ guardian where the injured player uis U18 should be handling and giving this data. The GAA Injury Benefit Fund operates similar to private medical insurance covers, \ personal accident policies \ schools accident policies etc and the claims process now on the Fund brings it into line with the claims process on those covers.
It is also hoped that the change in claims administration will in time reduce a burden of work from secretaries \ injury fund administrators. Furthermore, by putting the claims handling responsibility on the player or parent \ guardian, it should asssit in educating those players \ parents \ guardians as to what the Fund is. The GAA Injury Benefit Fund is not a substitute for a personal insurance policy. It is an initiative to assist players in times of injury to augment other personal covers. It is the responsibility of all participants in our games to have their own personal covers in place in times of injury. By making changes to the administration of the Fund, it should reinforce the concept that the fund provides a valuable protection to players and is worth preserving, protecting, and paying for but no player \ parent \ guardian should be depednent on the Fund to provide full coverage for injuries sustained.
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