Hey Rancher – keep this statute in your back pocket as it could be your defense if someone gets injured on your Farm:
The Farm Animal Liability Act basically provides a person* is not liable for damage to property or injury/death to a participant in a farm animal activity* if the damage comes from the dangers that are part of the inherent risk** of the farm animal activity or from showing an animal in a livestock show competitively.
We have some great attorneys who regularly participate in farm activities.
Give us a call and speak with one today.
Here are your definitions:
*person includes:
- farm animal activity sponsor
- farm animal professional livestock producer,
- livestock show sponsor
- livestock show participant
**farm animal activity includes:
- riding, handling, training
- driving, loading, unloading
- feeding, exercising
- vaccinating
- transporting
- herding, corralling, branding, dehorning..
**inherent risk includes:
- the propensity of an animal to behave in ways that may hurt or kill a person around it;
- the unpredictability of an animal’s reaction to sound, sudden movement, unfamiliar object, person, or another animal;
- for activities involving equine animals, certain land conditions and hazards;
- collision with another animal or an object;
- the possibility of one participant to do something that would cause an injury to another participant, including failure to maintain control