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Should You Worry about your Waiver Being Overly Broad?

November 18, 2014

By Doyice Cotten Waivers can fail to protect providers for a number of reasons. Often, they fail for being too narrow – for example, having the language fail to include the cause of the injury. Sometimes, however, the waiver writer attempts to be too inclusive and the waiver fails for being overly broad.

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Minnesota passes language requirement for liability waivers

June 17, 2014

By Allison Eklund

Thanks to Allison for permission to republish her informative article –  © 2013 Eklund Law, PC.  

As the dust settled from the Minnesota State Legislature’s spring session,

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Waivers Upheld for Negligence in 3 of 4 Trail Ride Cases in 2013

April 22, 2014

By Doyice Cotten

Trail rides have been a risky proposition for women in 2013. As can be seen below, a well-written liability waiver for trail rides will provide protection for equine providers from liability for ordinary negligence in most states.

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Releases and Related Issues: Revisited (Part 2)

July 2, 2013

By Charles R. Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp ©2012*

I am pleased to be able to run this great article on waivers and releases by two of the leading adventure law attorneys. Part I was posted last week.  

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Understanding Negligence and Liability: “Causes of Injury” (Part 3)

March 4, 2013

By Doyice Cotten

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we addressed the issue of negligence. This post presents explains that there are 3 causes of injury and the possible liability associated with each.

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Understanding Negligence and Liability: “Determining Negligence” (Part 2)

February 26, 2013

 By Doyice Cotten

In last week’s post Understanding Negligence and Liability (Part 1), we addressed this issue of negligence. This post presents another example to help the reader better understand the concept[1].

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Revised State Update on Enforcement of Parental Waivers

October 30, 2012

By Doyice Cotten

 In September, we ran an article showing which states currently enforce parental waivers. The next week we were told of two recent cases dealing with the subject and in the process of searching for them,

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October 27, 2012

Sport & Recreation Attorneys
Reb Gregg — Adventure Law Attorney

Reb Gregg is a leading attorney, lecturer and writer in legal liability issues for adventure, education and recreation based outdoor programs.

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Are Waivers for Minors Enforceable? An Update!

September 25, 2012

 

By Doyice J. Cotten

This update is taken from Waivers & Releases of Liability, 8th ed. by Doyice and Mary Cotten. It summarizes the most recent state case law regarding the enforceability of waivers for minors.

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Club Polo: Do Relationships Prevent Lawsuits and Make Waivers Unnecessary?

July 6, 2012

By Corinna Charlton, Charlton Equine Law

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Corinna for this contribution to SportWaiver.com. She is an equine attorney in San Francisco. This article originally ran in her blog, http://ribbonsandredtape.blogspot.com/ on June  7,

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