Can Anything a Dive Sports Employee Say Alter the Effect of a Waiver?
We don’t think so. If you ask us what a certain paragraph means, we might offer you a lay opinion. That opinion doesn’t alter the legal meaning of the paragraph. If we were to promise you that we never enforce some aspect of the waiver, that promise doesn’t alter the legal significance of the paragraph. The ONLY possible way we could damage the legal integrity of a release would be to engage in some sort of trickery or fraud to coerce you to sign, or to present the wavier to you at a point in the activity where you no longer have a choice about signing. In that case, the entire waiver would probably be judged null and void by the Alabama courts.
