By Doyice Cotten
Regular visitors to Sportwaiver.com know that while risks are plentiful, risk management is sometimes hard to spot in third world countries. Not so in the USA. This post features some risks and some signage used in Texas and New Mexico to warn less knowledgeable visitors of those risks.
Editors Note: Thanks go to Tiffany Dowell Lashmet for permission to run this excellent article on the Texas Agritourism Act. Tiffany is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist specializing in Agricultural Law with Texas A&M Agrilife Extension. Many, if not most,
By Doyice Cotten
Courts in many states require that to be enforceable, the exculpatory language of the waiver must be conspicuous. In a recent Texas case (Charbonnet v. Shami, 2013), the court discussed Texas waiver law (which requires that a waiver must satisfy their express negligence doctrine and must be conspicuous),
Note: This is a common negligence suit in which the defendant claims protection from a waiver of liability. Seldom do courts describe state waiver law so clearly.
Kimberly Ramirez ,
By Doyice Cotten
While in a bar after watching others, Revel Thom decided to ride a mechanical bull.(Thom v. Rebel’s Honkey Tonk, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 7555) Before riding the bull, he completed and signed a document entitled PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT,
By Doyice Cotten
Two couples, the Beckmans and the Jaegers, were injured while participating in a commercial jeep tour of a ranch (Jaeger v. Hartley, 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 613). The ranch driver became aware that the Jeep’s brakes were not working during the tour.
By Doyice Cotten
Several court rulings as well as a new statute have affected the parental waiver landscape recently. Three states were discussed in an article posted last week. Here, we will address recent cases affecting parental waiver law in Alabama,
