[RC] Waivers for minors - Tamara Woodcock
This morning I heard a report on NPR's Morning Edition on a recent Colorado
court decision that basically invalidated the minor release that all parents
sign when their kids participate in extreme/dangerous sports. This case was
about a teenage boy training on a ski racing course who smacked a tree adn
ended up blind. Though his parents had signed a minor release form waiving
sueing, they sued anyway, claiming negligence on the part of those who set
up the course.
The parallels between this and our sport made me pause...
There has been a bit of talk about how tough Tevis is, how dangerous the
trail can be. Yet minors ride...
According to the ruling (indicating that minor waivers do not rule out suit
for negligence), if a minor was injured at a ride, even thought a waiver had
been signed, the parents could sue and try to prove the injury did not
result from the inherant dangers in endurance riding, but rather from
negligence on the part of the ride in setting up the trail. If this was
proven, the ride would lose. In the court case I mentioned at the
beginning, the judge is now trying to determine if the injury to the boy was
a result from the inherant dangers of ski racing or negligence on the part
of the ski club and/or coach.
How do you ride managers out there feel about this? How do you parents out
there feel?
-Tamara
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Tamara Woodcock
Scurry, Texas
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