Employee’s Role in Rock-Climbing Accident Falls Short of ‘Reckless Misconduct’

A Michigan state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment, effectively ending the claim of a rock-climbing participant, who fell and then sued his athletic club and one of its employees for negligence.   The court found specifically that the waiver the plaintiff signed covered the general negligence claim and that he failed to show that the defendant employee exhibited “reckless misconduct.”   Clinton Lucas, the plaintiff, was an experienced rock climb