Sport Waiver Risk Fitness Law

By Doyice Cotten and Mary Cotten
We have previously addressed the question “Do online electronic waivers work?” (see Online Waiver Agreements: Not Worth the Paper They’re (Not) Written On?, Online Waivers/Electronic Signatures in NY,  and Waivers: Do Electronic Signatures Work?). There have been at least three recent cases addressing the issue.
Two Florida cases addressed the issue. In Hinely v. Florida Motorcycle Training, Inc. (2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 6757), a woman registered for a motorcycle training school on the internet and signed an electronic internet waiver of liability. Hinely then suffered an …

In a 2008 case (Stephenson v. Food Bank for New York City), Devone Stephenson alleged that the league was negligent in its supervision, operation, and control of the basketball game in which he was injured. Stephenson suffered a broken jaw when an opponent suddenly punched him in the face. Stephenson alleged that there was rough play, taunting, and “trash talk” throughout the game even though his team captain asked the referees to clean up the game.
The league claimed that Stephenson had released the league from liability when he completed an …

The following was originally published on www.sadlersports.com/blog/.
John Sadler responds to a frequently-asked question. Although there is little case law regarding this subject, John provides some “real life” advice.
Actual Client Question:

We were wondering if you require hard signatures on the release of liability form, player parent contract, code of ethics? We do registration on line to where everyone has their own password to login to their childs registration, in which we have \”I Accept\” buttons.  In the past we have had the parents click those buttons and then we have printed …