Some schools and businesses want customers/students to sign COVID-19 waivers.
We've come to expect legal waivers at places like ski resorts and bungee-jumping facilities, but colleges and all sorts of typically safe businesses — from hair salons to dentists' offices — are using them to try to escape legal accountability for injuries and deaths as they reopen during the pandemic. In the age of COVID-19, every reopened institution is now a bungee-jumping facility.
One Nation, Indivisible, Under Waiver. But is it a good idea?
Corporate America thinks so.
Of course they do. The article explains that such waivers are not really needed because even with the current laws, you couldn’t sue a business for catching any disease at one of their locations without having to prove severe negligence on their part. Extremely severe. Waivers are not needed unless you’re planning to ignore all reasonable safeguards at a business of school that you own.
Some schools and businesses want customers/students to sign COVID-19 waivers.
Of course they do. The article explains that such waivers are not really needed because even with the current laws, you couldn’t sue a business for catching any disease at one of their locations without having to prove severe negligence on their part. Extremely severe. Waivers are not needed unless you’re planning to ignore all reasonable safeguards at a business of school that you own.