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		<title>Are Waiver/Releases  Worth The Paper They Are Written On?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I
By
John Sadler, Sadler &#38; 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&#8217;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 ...


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		<title>Updating Parental Waiver Law &#8212; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; 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 ...


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		<title>Landowner Liability Under Equine and Recreational Use Statutes</title>
		<link>http://www.sportwaiver.com/landowner-liability-under-equine-and-recreational-use-statutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 ...


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		<title>100 Insurance Myths (#8 of 8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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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 ...


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		<title>100 Insurance Myths (#7 of 8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
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 ...


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		<title>100 Insurance Myths (#6 of 8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  This is the sixth 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 this segment addresses two ...


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		<title>Fla. Statute: Parents Can Waive Inherent Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 22, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ &#8211;
In 2008, the Florida Supreme Court held that parents who sign liability waivers allowing their children to participate in risky adventure activities are endangering their children&#8217;s property and estate, and therefore not acting in their children&#8217;s best interest.  As the court noted, child liability waivers protect businesses at the expense of children, which hardly seems a reasonable balancing of interests.
Accordingly, the Florida Supreme Court held that in the absence of a statute clearly permitting child liability waivers, these waivers were unenforceable.  However, recently the Florida legislature ...


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		<title>100 Insurance Myths (#5 of 8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fifth 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. The first three segments of the series focused on property insurance. Part 4 and 5 will cover Liability ...


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		<title>Liability Waivers and Releases: Still the Most Misunderstood Documents in the Horse Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 20:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie I. Fershtman, Attorney at Law gives accurate answers to some important questions about waivers.
Dear Readers:
A few years ago, a major equine magazine interviewed me on the topic of releases of liability (sometimes called “waivers”) that are used in equine-related activities. I have long said that liability waivers and releases are, in my opinion, the most misunderstood documents in the equine industry. To explain this further, I am re-printing a portion of my interview in this article.
Question: Why do some people believe releases and waivers are not worth the
paper they&#8217;re ...


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		<title>Expert Witness: Expert Plays Key Role in Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 15:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>djcotten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This case discussion is provided by Dr. Leonard K. Lucenko, a sports and recreational facilities safety expert.
Case Facts:
In September 2002, the plaintiff was playing a recreation hockey league game on the Red Rink at the defendant ice hockey facility.  This was the first time the plaintiff had played a league game at this venue.  Management had failed to warn the plaintiff or the other players that the kick plate on this rink was broken and cracked in several areas around the rink.
At the second-period face-off the plaintiff skated after the ...


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