Make a Case Study

Opposing Defendant: Hotel Manager

Has a party and invites 200-300 people in Rhode Island.

Built a new pool in the hotel with a diving board.

While sending out the invitations it requires everybody to sign a waiver

Waiver states if injured the hotel manager is not responsible for any injury on his property and that must be signed and witnessed before coming into the party.

Hotel has signs stating "Enter at your own risk" while entering the pool.

Hotel Manager has 15-20 kegs of hard liquor (Cases of them) and food.

No Lifeguard (Not required by the state)

Pool is opened

Your Defendant/Client: Hedge Fund Manager

35-year-old, 6'5" in height, 280lbs, and is from New Hampshire.

He makes 1 million dollars a year

He has a spouse and has two kids. The kids ages are 5 & 8. They go to private school and your defendant pays $100,000 a year for their school per total.

They live in a house that's $2,000,000 and has a 1.9 million mortgage on it.

They have no savings

No disability insurances

2 lease cars a Porsche 911 that's $1,500 a month and a BMW at $800 a month.

The husband is intoxicated from alcohol and starts to jump on the diving board to impress his kids. He then dives into the pool and breaks his neck and become a quadriplegic (Affected by or relating to paralysis of all four limbs).

1.You the attorney must defend your client in anyway or form.

Think about the three defenses to a tort action. 1. Assumption of the risk 2. Comparative negligence. 3. Intervening force