Court: Participant Assumed Risk in Spite of Employee’s Actions

A California appeals court has affirmed the ruling of a lower court, finding that a plaintiff assumed the risk of injury, even though a resort employee skiing on the slopes at the same time may have caused the accident with his own “recklessness.”   “The inherent risks of injury from skiing down a snow covered mountain include accidentally careless conduct by other skiers resulting in collisions,” wrote the court. “That risk is so inherent and obvious that the skier assumed it no