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INFANT PLAINTIFF ASSUMED RISK OF INJURY PLAYING BASKETBALL.

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant school district’s motion for summary judgment should have been granted. Infant plaintiff was injured playing basketball when he struck the pole holding the hoop. The Second Department held the school district had demonstrated infant plaintiff assumed the risk of that injury:

 

The doctrine of primary assumption of risk applies where a consenting participant in a sporting activity “is aware of the risks [inherent in the activity]; has an appreciation of the nature of the risks; and voluntarily assumes the risks” … . “However, the doctrine will not serve as a bar to liability if the risk is unassumed, concealed, or unreasonably increased” … . “If the risks of the activity are fully comprehended or perfectly obvious, plaintiff has consented to them and defendant has performed its duty” … .

The defendant established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law dismissing the cause of action alleging premises liability by demonstrating that the subject pole was open and apparent, that the risk of colliding with it was inherent in the activity of playing basketball in the courtyard, that the defendant did nothing to conceal or unreasonably increase the risk, and that the plaintiff assumed the risk of injury by voluntarily participating in the activity at that location, as he had on numerous prior occasions … . Altagracia v Harrison Cent. Sch. Dist., 2016 NY Slip Op 01141, 2nd Dept 2-17-16

 

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