Articles tagged with: Florida
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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 …
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By Doyice and Mary Cotten
On February 7 of this year we posted an article “Updating Parental Waiver Law — Part I”
updating laws regarding parental waivers in Florida and a number of other states. The Florida statute addressed was s. 744.301 in which the legislature authorized parental waivers for injuries or loss resulting from the inherent risks of the activity (but NOT from the negligence of the provider).
In this article I want to make our readers aware of another statute that might be important to parties signing or relying on parental …
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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 …
