At Equine Legal Solutions, we receive a lot of calls about injuries to horses and people. The callers usually want to know whether they have any liability in connection with the injury. Sometimes (but not often enough!), the caller has a liability release.

As part of the initial consultation, we review the liability release to see whether it might offer any protection to the concerned caller.

In this article, we describe what we look for when we review a liability release after an injury occurs. Because injuries are unfortunately rather common at boarding barns, we’ll discuss key liability release considerations in that context. However, these considerations apply to all liability releases in the equine context