By Doyice Cotten
Lisa Brown, a Florida resident, participated in a tube slide down a hill and was injured as she crossed other slide paths in returning from her slide. There was no other way to go. (Brown v.
By Doyice Cotten
In a recent Maryland case, Rachel Burke took her child to an entertainment center and was injured while in a ball pit with the child. She had on a previous visit signed an extensive waiver (Burke v.
by Doyice Cotten
Sylvia Rieff and her two children visited Jesse James Riding Stables, Inc. and took a guided horseback riding tour. Ms. Rieff signed a “Horse Rental Agreement” which included a release of liability. The 2022 case (Rieff v.
By Doyice Cotten
In this wrongful death case, Nicholas Blakely, a football player at Stetson University, died and his estate entered a wrongful death suit. (The Estate of Nicholas Adam Blakely v. Stetson University, Inc.,
By Doyice Cotten
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey went on a snorkeling tour in Hawaii. Prior to the trip, they signed liability waivers intended to relieve the tour company of liability for injuries resulting from tour company negligence.
Mrs.
By Doyice Cotten
A university soccer player and his mother signed a waiver so he could participate on the intercollegiate soccer team. The student was injured at a mandatory strength workout when an elastic exercise band came loose from a j hook and struck the player in his eyes.
By Doyice Cotten
Justice was 7 years old when he was severely injured (including multiple skull fractures, a brain hemorrhage, a post-traumatic seizure, and a traumatic brain injury) when he fell from an inflatable and struck a carpet-covered concrete floor.
Jack Greener, a white belt Jiu Jitsu student, suffered a devasting, paralyzing injury while working with his black belt instructor. The injury was suffered in November, 2018 and the award was announced by the trial court on March 38, 2023.
This article appeared in the Jan/Feb 2023 issue of Athletic Business. Attorney John Wolohan ([email protected]) is a professor of sports law in the David B. Falk College for Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, where Beth Perez is a Ph.D.
By JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek
Teaching Fitness Law – FREE Webinar May 4th
The Fitness Law Academy, LLC is again offering a Faculty Training Course this summer (begins May 23rd). Faculty members who have participated in this course the past two summers have enjoyed and benefited from the course.