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Liability Waiver
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ContractsProf Blog
Recreation and Risk: The Book, The Website, The Links to Liability Waivers
From time to time, liability waivers and exculpatory agreements have been a topic for the Blog. There was plenty of interest in the subject in connection with the OceanGate disaster…
Law Times News
Liability waiver barred claims in a personal injury lawsuit: Ontario Superior Court
The case arose from injuries sustained during an accident at a cycling event
ContractsProf Blog
Colorado Supreme Court Will Not Allow Waiver of Negligence Per Se Claims
We have had grounds to consider liability waivers recently, for example, here in connection with the implosion of the OceanGate submersible, here in connection with venues where invitees are encouraged…
ContractsProf Blog
Liability Waiver on Charter Flight Unenforceable Under the Warsaw Convention
Image by DALL-EOn January 5, 2022, Richard C. Murphy III boarded a Cessna as the plane's sole passenger on a charter flight to the Bahamas. Mr. Murphy was injured when…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
Iowa Supreme Court deadlocks on specifics required for liability waivers
By Rox Laird
When Dubuque police officer Katherine Avenarius accidentally shot herself in the leg while attending an Iowa Law Enforcement Academy firearms instructor school, she sued the academy claiming her injury was…
ContractsProf Blog
Child Bound By Parents’ Arbitration Agreement with Amusement Park, Case #1
Today, we have two separate posts on two very similar cases.The Headlees took their daughter, K.H. to an amusement part. This is the torts equivalent to "A guy walks into…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
BC Court of Appeal rejects liability waiver in mountaineering accident
The waiver did not cover a climbing expedition during which the client was injured
Recreation Law
Maine Good Samaritan Statutes
§ 164. Immunity from civil liability 1 § 2150-C. Automated external defibrillators; immunity from civil liability 1 § 2150-F. Definitions 2 § 2150-G. Epinephrine autoinjectors; emergency administration 3 § 2496. Rules and policies 4 §…
ContractsProf Blog
The OceanGate Liability Waiver and Exculpatory Agreement
The five people who perished when their submersible imploded on its way to providing them a view of The Titanic's undersea remains signed an exculpatory agreement and liability waiver. On…
Recreation Law
Nebraska Supreme Court upholds release for a minor who was injured as a student athlete at a private college.
Age of majority is 19 in Nebraska. Student athlete was 18 when he, and his mother signed release. Release was used to stop lawsuit over injuries received as a student…