Reexamining Duties Owed by Universities to Their Athletes

By Jacob F. Kratt, of Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey Over the past few years, courts in Pennsylvania have been called upon to examine duties owed by colleges and universities to their student-athletes and related issues such as waivers executed by student athletes in connection with their participation in university athletics. Recently, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued its decision in Baumbach v. Lafayette College, 272 A.3d 83 (Pa. Super. 2022), holding that a college had a duty