A night at the arena or the ball park can be enjoyable for the whole family but a personal injury can easily ruin that enjoyment.\u00a0 Sporting events can be somewhat complicated from a legal perspective in terms of personal injury law due specifically to one legal principle called voluntary assumption of risk.<\/p>\n
Voluntary Assumption of Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n Known under the Latin (as so many legal terms are) as volenti non fit injuria<\/em> is a legal principle that effectively translates to \u201cThat to which one consents cannot be considered an injury.\u201d\u00a0 This is a defence in tort law that states a person engaging in an event that is fully aware of the risks of that event cannot later seek damages directly related to the event.\u00a0\u00a0 In terms of sporting events this covers one of two possible injured parties:\u00a0 the participant and the spectator.<\/p>\n Participants of any sport are fully expected to understand the possible injuries that might happen in the playing of that sport and thus are not able to receive compensation if those injuries occur.\u00a0 Spectators fall under much the same logic.\u00a0 At a baseball game, for example, one would expect to have to watch out for baseballs that might make it into the stands.\u00a0 Thus, any injuries resulting from stray baseballs would not result in compensation for those injured.\u00a0 That said, the specifics of a particular situation may warrant a further look at the facts, and if you believe you have a good case you should contact a personal injury lawyer.<\/p>\n Other Injuries that do not Fall under Voluntary Assumption of Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n Many injuries that happen to spectators at sporting events are not directly related to the game being played.\u00a0 Most often these are slip and fall injuries caused by improper cleaning or maintenance of surfaces within the sports venue.\u00a0 These do not fall under voluntary assumption of risk (no one expects that attending a hockey game will result in banging your head off of a slippery floor), and the venue owners may be held liable for any damages.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve been injured at a sporting event you should take action to insure you are properly compensated.\u00a0 Contact Conte Associates at 1-877-614-0008.\u00a0Based in Vaughan, Conte & Associates works with clients in\u00a0Vaughan\u00a0and in the surrounding cities of: Thornhill, Woodbridge, Concord, Kleinberg, Maple and Richmond Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A night at the arena or the ball park can be enjoyable for the whole family but a personal injury can easily ruin that enjoyment.\u00a0 Sporting events can be somewhat complicated from a legal perspective in terms of personal injury law due specifically to one legal principle called voluntary assumption of risk. Voluntary Assumption of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[137,297],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contelawyers.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}