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Release Did Not Exclude Liability for Personal Trainer’s Negligence

The First Department determined that the wording of a release for a personal training program did not express an unequivocal intent to limit liability for negligence.  The plaintiff alleged that the trainer negligently instructed him to lift an excessive amount of weight:

Prior to beginning training at defendant’s facility, plaintiff executed a release wherein he acknowledged that there were “inherent risks in participating in a program of strenuous exercise” and released defendant from “all claims . . . which

I . . . . may have against [defendant] . . . for all injuries . . . which may occur in connection with my participation in the program.” It is undisputed that General Obligations Law § 5-326 does not bar enforcement of this release as defendant’s facility is an instructional, and not a recreational, one. However, the language of the release does not reflect a clear and unequivocal intent to limit liability for negligence … . While the release warned of the risks inherent in undergoing a strenuous exercise program, it does not “express[] any intention to exempt . . . defendant from liability for injury . . . which may result from [its] failure to use due care . . . in [its] training methods” … . …[T]he release does not purport to release defendant from all personal injury claims, “whether or not based on the acts or omissions of [defendant],” or contain other language conveying a similar import … .  Kim v Harry Hanson Inc, 2014 NY Slip Op 08229, 1st Dept 11-25-14

 

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