Comments on: More baseball liability woes https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/03/more-baseball-liability-woes/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:05:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: New York Injury Cases Blog https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/03/more-baseball-liability-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-43513 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:05:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9852#comment-43513 Unusual Sports Related Injury Case Plaintiffs Failing to Win Damages…

In several unusual sports related cases around the country recently, injured plaintiffs have failed to win any damages. If we count "slam dancing" as a sport then the score is no wins, two losses and two ties (to be broken……

]]> By: Bill Poser https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/03/more-baseball-liability-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-43035 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:08:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9852#comment-43035 The claim seems to be against the group that organized the outing, not the ballpark or the player, for seating the girl in an unsafe area. The article mentions that she was sitting in an area beyond the portion of the stands protected by a net. I don’t know much about baseball. Is the netting supposed to extend further? Are spectators not supposed to sit where she was sitting? In short, I’m wondering whether the court found that the girl did not assume liability in this case because the organizers were negligent in seating her in an unusually dangerous place?

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