https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/liability-concerns-prompt-cities-limit-sledding/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/liability-concerns-prompt-cities-limit-sledding/comment-page-1/#comment-317399 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:30:06 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50568#comment-317399 […] “Don’t the attorneys who bring these [sled injury municipal] lawsuits have kids and don’t any of them go sledding together?” [Abby Schachter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, quoting my response to that question; Nicole Kaeding, Cato; earlier] […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/liability-concerns-prompt-cities-limit-sledding/comment-page-1/#comment-316670 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:29:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50568#comment-316670 It would be nice if the media coverage was more specific on why the liability still exists. In Iowa, e.g., a bill was introduced in 2011 that would have immunized municipalities from liability for sledding accidents, but it was defeated in the house on party-line votes (R-for, D-against) because the trial lawyers association opposed it. In 2013, the bill passed the house by a largely part-line vote (see H.F. 158) and withered in the senate (26 D, 24 R).

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