Sport Waiver Risk Fitness Law

Part I
By
John Sadler, Sadler & Company, Inc..
This is Part I of a 2 part series about liability waivers. An authority in the field of sport insurance, John shares some things he has learned about waivers while in the insurance business. Note: Some of the state laws have changed since this was originally published on John’s website. Change in state waiver law is a constant.) Part II will appear next week.
As a sports insurance specialist and risk manager, I often wondered the answer to this question myself because of all the …

By Doyice Cotten
Several court rulings as well as a new statute have affected the parental waiver landscape recently. The purpose of this two-part article is to bring you up-to-date on changes in the law. Three states are discussed below and Alabama, Texas, and Pennsylvania will be covered next week. Parental waiver law for all states is covered in depth in Waivers & Releases of Liability, 7th ed.
Iowa
The Iowa Supreme Court has recently clarified parental waiver law in Iowa (Galloway v. State of Iowa, No. 08-0776, Nov. 5, 2010). Fourteen year …

Holly C. Rudolph, J.D. has produced a product that can be of great interest to those in sport, recreation, and fitness industries.  She has collected all Equine Activity Liability Statutes as well as all Recreational Land Use statutes and put them in one convenient place. sport lawyers, sport law professors, and recreation professors should find this an invaluable resource.
Holly is a recent graduate of Lewis and Clark Law School, a Dean’s Fellow, member of the Cornelius Honor Society, and clerked for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. A summa cum …

This is the eighth of an 8-part series dealing with insurance myths. We all know that insurance is one of the major risk management tools for any sport, fitness, or recreation business. For many of us, however, insurance is just a big mystery that we entrust to others. After this series, you will know many pitfalls and minefields to avoid. Thanks go to Daniel P. Hale for contributing this series to Sportwaiver.com. Segments 1-3 focused on property insurance, segments 4-5 covered liability insurance, segment 6 addressed workers compensation and …

This is the seventh of an 8-part series dealing with insurance myths. We all know that insurance is one of the major risk management tools for any sport, fitness, or recreation business. For many of us, however, insurance is just a big mystery that we entrust to others. After this series, you will know many pitfalls and minefields to avoid. Thanks go to Daniel P. Hale for contributing this series to Sportwaiver.com. Segments 1-3 focused on property insurance, segments 4-5 covered liability insurance, and segment 6 addressed two areas …