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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Fatal In-Bounds Avalanche

By Rocky Thompson on May 18th, 2012

The family of a man who died while skiing by himself at Colorado’s Winter Park Resort is suing Intrawest Winter Park Operations Corporation, the company that owns the resort. The slide was inbounds in the Trestle Trees area, 40 feet wide and 60 vertical feet long. The man was found buried about two feet deep. Colorado shield laws limit damages of up to $250k in ski resort lawsuits. The family’s lawyer says that the low limits to damages effectively makes leaving open dangerous parts of the mountain a business decision instead of a safety decision. This is only the second avalanche-related in-bounds death in the state since 1991.

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2 Responses to “Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Fatal In-Bounds Avalanche”

  1. carpHater May 21st, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Welcome to the land of the free to sue. I hope this one set of turds don’t fuck it up for the rest of us…

  2. thedawg May 21st, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    It is not an easy issue, this young man died leaving a wife and two small children, this family was emotionally an economically devastated by this death due to an in-bounds avalanche death at a time when the CAIC had issued an alert. I believe the Colorado shield law, on occasion, gives Colorado ski resorts an incentive to open, or leave open unsuitable and dangerous terrain.