Calarco v. YMCA of Greater Metropolitan Chicago

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• holding provision to hold YMCA \free from any and all liability\ and discharging \any and all rights and claims for damages\ not sufficient to relieve YMCA of liability for its own negligence
• holding provision to hold YMCA “free from any and all liability” and discharging “any and all rights and claims for damages” not sufficient to relieve YMCA of liability for its own negligence
• holding provision to hold 2Even in these jurisdictions, the better practice is to expressly use the term “negligence” in the exculpatory agreement. See Swartzentruber v. Wee-K Corp., 690 N.E.2d 941, 945 (Ohio Ct. App. 1997
• finding general language of release did not relieve recreation facility from liability for member alleging two fingers were fractured when metal weights fell from exercise equipment she was adjusting for another member

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