New York’s Highest Court Widens Application of Assumption of Risk in Golf Case

New York state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has affirmed summary judgment for a golfer, who hit a golf ball that struck and seriously injured his friend. The court held that the plaintiff assumed the risk of injury and declined to hold that the defendant golfer breached a duty to provide a timely warning to others within the "foreseeable ambit of danger," since the plaintiff was approximately 50 degrees away from the intended line of flight of the subject golf ball.   The court