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Primary Assumption of Risk Precludes Student’s Sports-Related Lawsuit.

The “primary assumption of risk” doctrine precluded a student baseball player’s lawsuit against his school where the student was struck in the face by a baseball “that had been hit on the ground with a fungo bat.”  O’Connor vs Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District, 2-12-04146, Index No. 021556/09, Second Dept. 2-27-13

 

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