With Older Health Club Members, Protection Against Falls is Paramount

As the age of health club members skews older, more care has to be taken to guard against falls.

Court arguments in Reoven Capri v. L.A. Fitness International centered on the waiver Capri signed when he joined his health club in January 2001. Capri's November 2002 fall - which resulted in a case that reached the appellate level and then boomeranged back to a district court before being settled in 2006 - was more straightforward than the lawsuit it spawned. Capri, a baby boomer in his 50s, slipped on algae that had accumulated around a drain on the club's pool deck, and sustained an undisclosed injury.

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