Personal Injury Law

Major League Baseball?s Liability for Injuries Resulting from Shattering Maple Bats

When players or spectators are injured at sporting events, a common and often successful defense alleged by the team or stadium owner is that the person injured assumed the risk of injury; in other words that the injury is considered to be an acceptable risk understood and known to the injured person. Another common defense is that the defendant did not have any notice of the dangerous condition prior to the occurrence so as to permit it the opportunity to correct or warn about it. But with a great number of maple bats litterally shattering (a much more dangerous phenominom than a more traditional ash bat breaking) causing injuries to uniformed personnel and fans seated in the stands, it is questionable whether these defenses would be successful.

Full post as published by Legal Blog on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).