Maine High Court: Spectator’s Injury Claim Against Parents Of Horse Rider Is Barred

(July 23, 2019, 9:33 AM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Maine — In a case of first impression, a sharply divided Maine Supreme Judicial Court on July 11 concluded that the parents of a 10-year-old rider of a horse that collided with a spectator were entitled to statutory immunity because a horse’s unanticipated resistance to its rider’s directions was part of the risk of being around horses (Nancy J. McCandless v. John Ramsey, et al., No. 18-28, Maine Sup., 2019 Me. LEXIS 108)....

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