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"Originally posted by kdf5
...Who's going to get sued?
Probably his doctor, his coach, and the league. These are same people that will be sued for any serious spinal injury regardless of the circumstances".
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I think you missed one important person in your list. I think that by reading the original post that we are talking Pop Warner league or something else vs. a varsity player so if this is the case I would rather tell him he can't play.
Do you think anyone would question you if you sold this decision? I just don't feel I would be comfortable letting someone with a neck or back injury play again. If this was varsity I agree that we probably can't keep him out. If he was hurt last week then how are we to know that, but knowing that he went to the hospital, I think, opens a whole can of litigation worms that could come back to haunt me if he's reinjured.
If I run a grocery store and someone slips on a puddle of water that I didn't know about, I'm probably relieved of liability but if I knew that puddle was there and didn't do anything about it, then I'm hung out to dry in a lawsuit. I just think the same logic would run to this situation. If I know he's injured, I let him play and then he gets hurt I know for a fact that I'm going to be named in a lawsuit and letting him play in some meaningless Pop Warner league with the possibilities outlined above means he probably doesn't play on my field.
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