O'CONNELL v. Killington, Ltd.

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• stating other factors to consider in determining if legal duty exists, including “the closeness of the connection between defendant’s conduct and plaintiff’s injury”
• manual establishing procedures for ski accidents did not demonstrate assumption of duty to third parties
• common-law negligence requires legal duty owed by defendant to plaintiff, breach of duty, breach was proximate cause of plaintiff's harm, and plaintiff suffered actual harm
• ski area has no duty to protect the litigation interest of a skier injured in a collision on the slopes
• negligence law does not recognize a duty absent physical harm
• loss of right to sue for compensation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).