Equine Law Blog
When a boarding stable accepts a customer’s horse for care and keeping, the law generally imposes a duty on the stable to use reasonable care. Consequently, a stable could potentially be liable for a horse’s injury even if it had no real intention of harming a horse.
If a boarder wins a case against the stable, the stable might (depending on the facts and the applicable law) be ordered to pay:
A summer camp’s Business Manager comes to work over the weekend to “test out” the camp’s newly donated horses, allegedly to determine their suitability, but he is thrown and sustains serious injuries. Is he entitled to recover workers' compensation insurance? No, says a worker’s compensation appeals panel of the Tennessee Supreme Court in Parish v. Highland Park Baptist Church, No. E2010-01977-WC-R3-WC (Tenn. 10/18/11)(unpublished).
Why?
Disputes occasionally occur when a buyer purchases a horse that is represented as being one age when, it later turns out, the horse is many years older. Does the buyer have a case against the seller?
Are you considering allowing a boarding stable to use your horse in its riding lesson program? Take caution. Horse owners face risks in these arrangements, including:
