As a recreation provider, you have a strong liability release and ensure all of your customers sign it before participating. Since the courts have ruled that a liability release is a binding and enforceable contract, you’re covered, right? In most cases, yes … but what if your client doesn’t speak English and claims they didn’t…

Ms. Penwarden has decades of experience handling litigation for recreation providers, including ski areas, golf course operators, mountain bike parks and cruise ship operators. Her work includes handling trials and appeals in both federal and state courts, in addition to arbitration, mediation, and providing risk management counseling and advice. She regularly handles cutting edge assumption…