EVERYONE RUN! Here come the Ambulance Chasers!

[billski]

Asking the age old question, "Can you sue even if you are stupid?"

Speed Demons
Should Skiing Too Fast Be A Criminal Offense?
http://www.chalatlaw.com/speeddemons.html


http://www.chalatlaw.com/skilawbegin.html

A successful New York ballet dancer is run down on an intermediate slope by a beginner skier who is not watching where he is going. She suffers an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, ruining her career. Can you recover damages for the ballerina?

 

[blacknblue]

Good thoughts, uphill. You present fair and rational ideas on the subject. It is definitely a tough issue to come down on. Certainly the viability of patroling skiers/riders as we would like is nearly impossible.
There has been at least one case where an out of control skier has been prosecuted for hitting another skier--I believe it was a drunk skier at Vail who ran into and killed a kid taking ski lessons.