Payouts in Outdoor Recreation
Posted: March 14, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Boating, Claim, Colorado, Jury Award, Paddling, Payouts, Rafting, Recreation, Settlement, Tours and Outfitters, Whitewater Rafting Leave a comment »(Except Skiing Incidents)
The information here has been collected from various sources. The accuracy is not guaranteed.
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Year |
Payout |
Defendant |
Claim |
Source |
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$750,000 |
Remlinger Farms |
Climbing wall |
http://www.schifferman.com/CM/Custom/Settlements-Verdicts.asp |
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2003 |
$250,000 |
Mountain Streams Outfitters |
Drowned whitewater rafting |
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2004 |
$936,000 |
Greenfield Community College |
Foot Entrapment at College Summer Camp |
Wow, someone apologized |
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2008 |
$400,000 |
Sutter County California School District |
Improperly tied into the course |
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2008 |
$5,000,000 |
Camp Ozark |
Youth Camp |
Large Jury Award in death of 9 year old Camper |
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2009 |
$500,000 |
Ohio University |
Failure to supervise and protect from a fire |
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2009 |
$13,000000 |
Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club Summer Camp |
Drowning |
Death we have commented on allegedly has a $14 million verdict |
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2009 |
$4,700000 |
Alpine Towers International |
Improper equipment and failure to train |
$4.7 million dollar verdict in climbing wall case against Alpine Towers in South Carolina Court |
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2009 |
$2,300000 |
Boomers |
Fall from Climbing Wall |
Another multimillion dollar jury verdict in outdoor recreation |
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2009 |
$2,360000 |
Kicked by horse |
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2010 |
$4,750,000 |
Idlewild Baptist Church |
Ski Collision |
$5 Million because a church took a kid skiing and allowed him to……..ski |
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$34,946,000 |
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Totals by Defendants
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Summer Camps |
$18.0 M |
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Ropes/Challenge Courses |
$5.10 M |
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Youth Church Programs |
$4.75 M |
|
Climbing Walls |
$2.95 M |
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Outdoor Programs |
$2.61 M |
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College & Universities |
$1.50 M |
|
$34.91 |
Posted March 7, 2012
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$400,000 challenge course settlement for shattered ankle
Posted: April 10, 2008 Filed under: Challenge or Ropes Course | Tags: Ankle, California, Los Angeles, Ropes course, Settlement, Teacher Leave a comment »The Appeal-Democrat is reporting in Sutter County teacher’s broken ankle worth $400,000 that a ropes course injury was settled for $400,000 right before the start of trial. The ropes course was owned by the Sutter County California School District and the experience was part of a conference for teachers.
The plaintiff was being lowered to the ground after crossing a catwalk when she separated from the lowering rope and fell approximately 10 feet shattering her ankle. As she was being lowered the plaintiff claims she was told “trust me, I will not let you fall.”
The plaintiff stated “I didn’t want to go. I was told I didn’t have a choice.” “As a nontenured teacher there is a lot of pressure to do everything that is set before you to do,” Gale said. “The idea of tenure is a key to why I did it.”
This is a classic example of “challenge by choice” not being fully recognized by everyone. Even though the participant at the moment might decide to participate, the entire event is not a choice. The participant is there as part of a corporate or work affair where they believe they have no choice if they want to maintain or move up in their career. This presents a real dilemma for the judge and jury; did the participant really want to be there? Did the participant really assume the risk?


