Ski Law News and Reports Archives
| Jim Chalat quoted in the Denver Post Vail drops its countersuit against skier hurt at bridge |
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| Law Reporter Volume 48, No. 4, May 2005
$1M settlement for downhill skier hit by uphill skier |
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| Law Reporter Volume 48, No. 3, April 2005 Skier hits snow groomer ascending ski slope |
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| Appeal Denied in Virginia Skiing Accident
The Supreme Court of Virginia has refused to hear an appeal by Wintergreen Resort in the case of a girl severely injured in a skiing accident. The 2004 trial resulted in the largest jury verdict previously awarded in a ski case. |
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| Charges Dropped in Skiing Fatality - Breckenridge Death Triggers Suit By Kin, Summit County officials dropped all criminal charges against a Briton involved in a fatal ski collision, even as the victim's family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court. |
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| British Skier Freed, Will Not Face Charges A British man won't face criminal charges in another skier's death, but the victim's family filed a civil suit against him Thursday. | |
| Jim Chalat quoted in the Vail Trail "Trauma parks" spark safety debate |
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| Boarder Sentenced In Skiing Collision A 20-year-old Texas man who got drunk and slammed into a children's ski school class at Sunlight Ski Area was sentenced Thursday to the heaviest penalty ever handed out in a Colorado ski-collision. |
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| Colorado Leads Way In Helmet Rules For Ski-Schoolers Several Colorado ski areas are forcing a shift in long-standing resort policy by mandating helmet use this season for kids in ski school. |
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| Criminal Verdict In Skier Case A Colorado jury recently convicted a skier of criminally negligent homicide for slamming into and killing a fellow skier on the slopes at the Vail ski resort. |
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| "Speed Kills" May Explain Increase In Ski Accidents Six snowriders dead on Colorado's ski slopes. Two paralyzed. Two fighting for their lives under the sweating brows of some of the state's most gifted surgeons. Could there be a reason beyond a statistical flare-up? |
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| Skier To Stand Trial In '97 Vail Death For the first time in Colorado's long history of skiing, a court jury has been summoned to decide what is criminally reckless behavior on the slopes. |
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| Mom Fights 'Undefined' Ski Law A mother's long fight against Vail Resorts over her son's death while he was skiing appears to be heading for U.S. District Court in Denver, and the result could dissolve ambiguity in the long-standing Colorado Ski Safety Act. |
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| Speed Demons - Should skiing too fast be a criminal offense? Ashley Robbins may only be 9 years old, but she know the dangers that lurk on the ski slopes. |
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| Jury Finds SkiCo Negligent, Awards Snowboarder $100K A federal jury found Aspen Skiing Co. was negligent for collision with a snowmobile at Snowmass in March 1997. As a result, the SkiCo must pay her $100,000. |
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| Off To Slopes? Then On With Helmet, Doctors Say
As skiers shell out big bucks for boots, bindings and boards, experts are recommending that they don't forget to chip in a few dollars to protect their brains. |
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| Hope Built On Tragedy's Pain Brian Dovey has been missing a big piece of his life since his 11-year-old brother, Matthew, died three years ago in a skiing accident at Breckenridge. |
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| Down Hill Litigator Skiing's a pretty safe sport, overall. But a few times a year, the lawyers get called out. |
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| Ski-Area Lawsuits Upheld The Colorado Supreme Court yesterday refused to give Colorado ski-area operators blanket immunity from lawsuits by skiers injured on their slopes. |
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| Dancer Wins $2.4 Million - Knee Injured in Ski Accident at Snowmass |
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