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QUESTIONS OF FACT ABOUT ASSUMPTION OF THE RISK AND THE LOCATION OF AN UNPADDED SNOW MACHINE POLE PRECLUDED SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SKIING ACCIDENT CASE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the ski resort defendants were not entitled to summary judgment in this skiing accident case. Infant plaintiff allegedly ran into a metal snow machine pole that was not padded:

The motion court dismissed the complaint on the ground that plaintiff assumed the risks associated with the sport of skiing.

Such risks include the risk of injury resulting from “other persons using the facilities” and from “man-made objects that are incidental to the provision or maintenance of a ski facility,” such as snowmaking equipment (General Obligations Law § 18-101; see also id. § 18-106). However, an individual “will not be deemed to have assumed … unreasonably increased risks”… .

If, as plaintiffs maintain, the unpadded pole was located on the ski trail or in an area where skiing was permitted, then defendants could be found to have failed to maintain their property in a reasonably safe condition. General Obligations Law § 18-107 provides that, “[u]nless otherwise specifically provided in this article, the duties of skiers, passengers, and ski operators shall be governed by common law” … . The common law applies where, as here, plaintiffs are alleging inadequate padding of defendant's snowmaking pole, a condition not specifically addressed by the statute (id.). On the record before us, we cannot conclude, as a matter of law, that the pole was off-trail and that the pole did not need to be padded. Thus, defendants are not entitled to summary judgment.

Nor are defendants entitled to summary judgment on the ground that the failure to pad the pole did not cause the subject collision, because that failure may have caused or enhanced the infant's injuries … . Madsen v Catamount Ski Resort, 2018 NY Slip Op 06794, First Dept 10-11-18

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