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The liability waiver, with the law by state.

Every outline below now comes with an editable Word document. The liability waiver is the head of the family: a complete release with an assumption-of-risk clause, indemnity, severability, governing law and guardian signature block, plus researched pages on how each state treats it. Beside it sit the family hubs for guardian signing, fitness, events, equipment rental and media permission.

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Free liability waiver form

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Free Minor Liability Waiver Form

A free minor liability waiver in Word, with guardian authority, age of majority, record retention and where a parent's signature binds the child.

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Free Fitness Waiver Form

A free fitness waiver in Word, plus health club statute research, AED duties, minors and the release wording gyms most often get wrong.

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Free Event Waiver Form

Free event waiver form in Word, plus who the release must name, why race entry forms fail, volunteer immunity statutes and the state law behind it.

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Free Equipment Rental Waiver Form

Free equipment rental waiver in Word: the release, the bailment terms, products liability limits, handover records and the states that change the answer.

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Free Release of Liability Form

A free release of liability form in Word, plus how a release differs from a waiver and a covenant not to sue, settlement releases and vehicle notices.

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Free Photo and Video Release Form

A free photo and video release in Word, with state right of publicity statutes, consent scope, minors, crowd shots and what revocation can undo.

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Alabama liability waiver form

Alabama upholds a signed release for ordinary negligence when the signer voluntarily took on a hazardous recreational activity that touches only a narrow slice of the public.

Read the Alabama page AK · STATE PAGE

Alaska liability waiver form

Pre-activity releases are valid in Alaska but are held, in the Supreme Court's own words, to a very high standard of clarity.

Read the Alaska page AZ · STATE PAGE

Arizona liability waiver form

Arizona enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but on terms no other state quite matches.

Read the Arizona page AR · STATE PAGE

Arkansas liability waiver form

Arkansas enforces a contract that relieves a business of its own negligence, but the courts say plainly that they do not favour such contracts, because public policy encourages the exercise of care.

Read the Arkansas page CA · STATE PAGE

California liability waiver form

California enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence for recreational and fitness activities because those activities do not implicate the public interest under Tunkl v.

Read the California page CO · STATE PAGE

Colorado liability waiver form

Colorado enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but calls them disfavoured, closely scrutinises them and construes them strictly against the business that wrote them.

Read the Colorado page CT · STATE PAGE

Connecticut liability waiver form

Connecticut asked and answered the question in three steps.

Read the Connecticut page DE · STATE PAGE

Delaware liability waiver form

Delaware enforces a release of the business's own future negligence, and the Supreme Court said so in a consumer fitness case.

Read the Delaware page FL · STATE PAGE

Florida liability waiver form

Florida enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but courts treat them as disfavored and construe them strictly against the business that wrote them.

Read the Florida page GA · STATE PAGE

Georgia liability waiver form

Georgia is one of the friendlier states for a business that uses a release.

Read the Georgia page HI · STATE PAGE

Hawaii liability waiver form

Hawaii regulates recreational waivers by statute.

Read the Hawaii page ID · STATE PAGE

Idaho liability waiver form

Idaho enforces pre-injury releases.

Read the Idaho page IL · STATE PAGE

Illinois liability waiver form

Illinois enforces pre-injury exculpatory agreements for ordinary negligence, but does not favour them.

Read the Illinois page IN · STATE PAGE

Indiana liability waiver form

Indiana enforces pre-injury releases, but on unusually demanding wording rules.

Read the Indiana page IA · STATE PAGE

Iowa liability waiver form

Iowa has held for decades that a contract exempting a party from liability for its own negligence is enforceable and not contrary to public policy, and the Supreme Court repeated that rule in Huber v.

Read the Iowa page KS · STATE PAGE

Kansas liability waiver form

Kansas starts from freedom of contract.

Read the Kansas page KY · STATE PAGE

Kentucky liability waiver form

A pre-injury exculpatory contract is not invalid per se in Kentucky, but the Supreme Court treats releases as disfavoured and construes them strictly against the party relying on them.

Read the Kentucky page LA · STATE PAGE

Louisiana liability waiver form

Louisiana is a civil law jurisdiction and refuses pre-injury releases of personal injury outright.

Read the Louisiana page ME · STATE PAGE

Maine liability waiver form

Maine will enforce a pre-injury release, but the Law Court decides these cases almost entirely on the words.

Read the Maine page MD · STATE PAGE

Maryland liability waiver form

Maryland enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence and treats freedom of contract as the starting point.

Read the Maryland page MA · STATE PAGE

Massachusetts liability waiver form

The Supreme Judicial Court has said plainly that Massachusetts law favors the enforcement of releases, and that a party may by agreement allocate risk and exempt itself from liability it might later incur as a result of its own negligence.

Read the Massachusetts page MI · STATE PAGE

Michigan liability waiver form

Michigan holds that it is not contrary to public policy for a party to contract against liability for damages caused by its own ordinary negligence, and it asks only whether the release was fairly and knowingly made and whether its words cover the claim.

Read the Michigan page MN · STATE PAGE

Minnesota liability waiver form

Minnesota upholds pre-injury exculpatory clauses in recreational and consumer settings, but it calls them disfavoured and reads them strictly against whoever benefits from them.

Read the Minnesota page MS · STATE PAGE

Mississippi liability waiver form

Mississippi allows a business to contract out of its own ordinary negligence, but the Supreme Court has said the law does not look with favor on such agreements, subjects them to close judicial scrutiny, and will not uphold them unless the intention of the parties is expressed in clear and unmistakable language.

Read the Mississippi page MO · STATE PAGE

Missouri liability waiver form

Missouri enforces pre-injury releases but imposes what the Supreme Court in Alack v.

Read the Missouri page MT · STATE PAGE

Montana liability waiver form

Montana's default rule comes from an 1895 contract statute.

Read the Montana page NE · STATE PAGE

Nebraska liability waiver form

Nebraska enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but only where the drafter's intent to be relieved of liability was made clear and unequivocal and the wording is understandable enough that an ordinary, knowledgeable signer knows what is being given up.

Read the Nebraska page NV · STATE PAGE

Nevada liability waiver form

Nevada allows a business to contract out of liability for its own ordinary negligence, but it polices those contracts hard.

Read the Nevada page NH · STATE PAGE

New Hampshire liability waiver form

New Hampshire starts from the position that exculpatory contracts are generally prohibited, then carves out a narrow path to enforcement.

Read the New Hampshire page NJ · STATE PAGE

New Jersey liability waiver form

New Jersey applies a four-part test drawn from Gershon v.

Read the New Jersey page NM · STATE PAGE

New Mexico liability waiver form

New Mexico enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but only after a two-step screen that is harder to survive than the tests used in most states.

Read the New Mexico page NY · STATE PAGE

New York liability waiver form

At common law New York enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but the law frowns on them and reads them closely: the release must make it appear plainly and precisely that it covers the operator's own negligence, using the word negligence or words of similar import.

Read the New York page NC · STATE PAGE

North Carolina liability waiver form

North Carolina enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence but refuses to favour them.

Read the North Carolina page ND · STATE PAGE

North Dakota liability waiver form

A pre-injury release of ordinary negligence is enforceable in North Dakota.

Read the North Dakota page OH · STATE PAGE

Ohio liability waiver form

Ohio enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence in recreational settings.

Read the Ohio page OK · STATE PAGE

Oklahoma liability waiver form

Pre-injury releases are valid in Oklahoma but the Supreme Court calls them distasteful to the law and makes each one run what Schmidt v.

Read the Oklahoma page OR · STATE PAGE

Oregon liability waiver form

Oregon has no clear-language test.

Read the Oregon page PA · STATE PAGE

Pennsylvania liability waiver form

Pennsylvania enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence under a two-stage test the Supreme Court restated in Topp Copy Products v.

Read the Pennsylvania page RI · STATE PAGE

Rhode Island liability waiver form

No Rhode Island Supreme Court decision located in this research lays down a test for a pre-injury release signed by the customer of a recreational, fitness or event business.

Read the Rhode Island page SC · STATE PAGE

South Carolina liability waiver form

South Carolina enforces exculpatory contracts out of respect for freedom of contract, but the courts say plainly that such provisions tend to induce a want of care, so they are not favoured by the law and are strictly construed against the party relying on them.

Read the South Carolina page SD · STATE PAGE

South Dakota liability waiver form

A signed release of ordinary negligence works in South Dakota, and the Supreme Court has said so twice on facts that businesses recognise.

Read the South Dakota page TN · STATE PAGE

Tennessee liability waiver form

Tennessee enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, and in Copeland v.

Read the Tennessee page TX · STATE PAGE

Texas liability waiver form

Texas enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, but treats them as extraordinary risk-shifting contracts that must satisfy the two-part fair notice test: the express negligence doctrine (the intent to release the other side's own negligence stated in clear terms within the four corners of the document) and conspicuousness (the release must visually stand out so a reasonable person would notice it).

Read the Texas page UT · STATE PAGE

Utah liability waiver form

Utah permits an adult to give up the right to sue for another party's ordinary negligence, and the Utah Supreme Court made that general rule explicit in Berry v.

Read the Utah page VT · STATE PAGE

Vermont liability waiver form

For a recreation business that invites the general public onto its premises, a Vermont release of the operator's own negligence is void.

Read the Vermont page VA · STATE PAGE

Virginia liability waiver form

Virginia is an outlier.

Read the Virginia page WA · STATE PAGE

Washington liability waiver form

Washington enforces pre-injury releases of ordinary negligence, and its courts state the rule as a list of three defeating conditions rather than a drafting formula: an exculpatory clause is enforceable unless it violates public policy, or the negligent act falls greatly below the standard established by law for the protection of others, or the release is inconspicuous.

Read the Washington page DC · STATE PAGE

Washington DC liability waiver form

A pre-injury release of a District business's own negligence is enforceable, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals said so on facts that fit a recreation operator exactly.

Read the Washington DC page WV · STATE PAGE

West Virginia liability waiver form

A pre-injury release, which West Virginia courts call an anticipatory release, is valid here as a starting point.

Read the West Virginia page WI · STATE PAGE

Wisconsin liability waiver form

Wisconsin has never declared exculpatory contracts invalid per se, but its Supreme Court has struck down every pre-injury release it has reviewed in the modern line of cases, from Merten in 1982 and Arnold in 1983 through Richards, Yauger, Atkins and Roberts in 2016.

Read the Wisconsin page WY · STATE PAGE

Wyoming liability waiver form

Wyoming enforces a pre-injury release of ordinary negligence so long as it does not offend public policy, and the Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld one in every recreation case located in this research.

Read the Wyoming page LEGAL GUIDES

Waiver law guides

Are online waivers binding, what a release covers, minors, and how to write one that holds up.

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The liability waiver, with the law by state.

Free liability waiver form

Free Minor Liability Waiver Form

Free Fitness Waiver Form

Free Event Waiver Form

Free Equipment Rental Waiver Form

Free Release of Liability Form

Free Photo and Video Release Form

Alabama liability waiver form

Alaska liability waiver form

Arizona liability waiver form

Arkansas liability waiver form

California liability waiver form

Colorado liability waiver form

Connecticut liability waiver form

Delaware liability waiver form

Florida liability waiver form

Georgia liability waiver form

Hawaii liability waiver form

Idaho liability waiver form

Illinois liability waiver form

Indiana liability waiver form

Iowa liability waiver form

Kansas liability waiver form

Kentucky liability waiver form

Louisiana liability waiver form

Maine liability waiver form

Maryland liability waiver form

Massachusetts liability waiver form

Michigan liability waiver form

Minnesota liability waiver form

Mississippi liability waiver form

Missouri liability waiver form

Montana liability waiver form

Nebraska liability waiver form

Nevada liability waiver form

New Hampshire liability waiver form

New Jersey liability waiver form

New Mexico liability waiver form

New York liability waiver form

North Carolina liability waiver form

North Dakota liability waiver form

Ohio liability waiver form

Oklahoma liability waiver form

Oregon liability waiver form

Pennsylvania liability waiver form

Rhode Island liability waiver form

South Carolina liability waiver form

South Dakota liability waiver form

Tennessee liability waiver form

Texas liability waiver form

Utah liability waiver form

Vermont liability waiver form

Virginia liability waiver form

Washington liability waiver form

Washington DC liability waiver form

West Virginia liability waiver form

Wisconsin liability waiver form

Wyoming liability waiver form

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