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    [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
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