Attending Professional Sporting Venues

Here in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, we are blessed to be surrounded by several baseball and hockey teams at the professional, collegiate, recreational, and youth levels. Notably though, many people do not realize the risks they are assuming when attending these sporting events. For example, you may not have known that if you attend a baseball or hockey game, and are hit by a flying puck or baseball and get injured, that you cannot recover money for any injuries you suffer. This concept is known as implied assumption of the risk, or in more memorable terms, the baseball doctrine. While a facility owner usually owes a duty to protect people that enter their facility, courts have held under the baseball doctrine that baseball stadium and…