Court upholds waiver in tragic Whistler accident

In a recent decision before the British Columbia Supreme Court, Jamieson v. Whistler Mountain Resort Limited Partnership 2017 BCSC 1001, the plaintiff, Dr. Blake Jamieson, was seriously injured on August 28, 2009 while mountain bike riding at a park owned and operated by the defendant Whistler Mountain Resort Limited Partnership ("Whistler"). He described the accident: his tire got caught briefly in some terrain at the top of a feature of the park called the "A-Line Rock Drop", causing him to be thrown over the handlebars. Unfortunately, he suffered a spinal cord injury; he is confined to a wheelchair. Dr. Jamieson brought...

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