Question

There are always interesting legal cases in the news. Use a search engine (Google, Bing, etc.) to search for “Tort Cases 2016”. Look through what you find and copy the link* of one of the articles that grab your attention. Post a summary of it, and include your reaction to it AND a copy of the link*, in case classmates might like to read the article in its entirety.

Answer 1

The case is Germer v. The Churchill Downs Management, 41 Fla. L. Weekly D1630 (Fla. 3rd DCA July 13, 2016):

Defendant stable owner and horse owner immune from liability under Florida’s “equine activities liability act” for horse bite suffered by plaintiff while engaged in equine activity:

The courts concluded that the stable owner and horse owner immune from liability of the injury caused by the horse to the plaintiff engaged in the equine activities. The plaintiff was injured during an organized activity at the defendant’s stable. He filed a claim for injury and demanded damages. However courts ruled in favor of the defendant.

I was not aware of the fact that under equine activity laws an owner is immune from liability if the activity is an organized one involving animals. Thus libility of injury may not arise in professional games in which people get injured due to animals in bad mood.