Attorney Brian Dettman repeats it three times: liability waivers are garbage. They’re designed to scare people out of pursuing claims, but they don’t actually protect businesses from negligence.
If you hurt yourself doing something inherently risky – that’s what waivers cover. If you’re hurt because the business failed to maintain safe conditions – the waiver doesn’t protect them.
Don’t let a piece of paper you signed convince you that you have no options.
Liability Waivers Are Garbage
Is he saying liability waivers are garbage? Personal injury attorney Brian Dettman explains the purpose of those 10-page waivers.
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Liability waivers are garbage. Liability waivers are garbage. Liability waivers are garbage. They’re a means for a business to scare you into not pursuing a claim. So I get asked about liability waivers quite often. People go to ball pits or they go rafting, and they say, ‘Hey listen, I signed this waiver. I hurt myself. I can’t do anything.’ It doesn’t work like that. A business is not entitled to insulate themselves from negligence. Let’s pretend like you go whitewater rafting. If you hurt yourself in the normal course and scope of whitewater rafting, that’s what the liability waiver is for. If the rafting company doesn’t take care of their rafts and doesn’t maintain them, and as a result of the raft being deficient you get hurt – it’s that scenario in which the liability waiver does not apply. A business has an obligation to make the activity safe, and that’s why these liability waivers are garbage.
