Sport Waiver Risk Fitness Law

Part II
By
John Sadler, Sadler & Company, Inc.
This is Part II 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.
Assumption Of Risk (AOR) As A Defense To Negligence
The second protective purpose of a waiver/release is to trigger the Assumption Of Risk Defense under tort law – in other words – to provide evidence that the sports organization gave adequate warnings of the risks so that an argument can be …

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 …

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 …