Oooh. Don't say that waivers are useless, especially to your clients. When I worked as a raft guide for a company that ran 200 people a day, we would always have a smart person say "sure, I'll sign, but they don't hold up in court." If you, the guide, agree, then the waiver is less likely to hold up. Actually, they do hold up in court. Chase Van Gorder has been dedicating part of his law practice to this issue and has a bunch of articles online. Here is one link: http://www.vglaw.com/liability.html although the full index is at www.vglaw.com He also wrote How to Choose an Outfitter: http://www.onwatersports.com/tn/t/outfitter.html Maybe those will help both sides. Of course then there is the difference between showing negligence and gross negligence, etc... Andree Hurley On Water Sports - http://www.onwatersports.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Feb 28 2000 - 11:54:36 PST
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