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Personal Injury & Torts

Jan. 8, 2000

Assuming Risk

A series of cases has refined the doctrine of assumption of risk and re-defined how to bring motions for summary judgment.

By Michael A. Geibelson and Amanda N. Luftman
         In what has become an annual tradition since Knight v. Jewett, 3 Cal.4th 296 (1992), the Court of Appeal has reiterated the foundational principles of assumption of risk, this time in Record v. Reason, 73 Cal.App.4th 472 (1999). Along with Record came a series of cases that refined the doctrine of assumption of ri...

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