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Show Fun turns sour, suits filed Court dates still are pending in two lawsuits filed this summer against Park , City recreational facilities one against the Alpine Slide and the other against Park City Ski Area. In a complaint filed July 25, an Arizona man said he was injured while riding the Alpine Slide. In a separate law:-uit filed June 14, a Florida woman said she was injured exiting a skj lift while taking a lesson Hnearlj!l983. td! ei no.kjjjvj'j d ' Both suits were filed in U.S. District Court for Utah. In the Alpine Slide suit, William Jay Fisher of Paradise Valley, Ariz., said he was descending the slide on July 5, 1984, when his "sled" flew off the left side and he was thrown into the rough, unfinished edge of the adjoining slide. The lawsuit said that caused a severe laceration of his thigh and groin. The suit said at the time of the accident, Fisher was traveling at a reasonable speed and was exercising due care. He alleges the slide company, Park City Slide, was negligent in construction, maintenance and inspection of the slide and sled. He further stated he was not warned of unsafe conditions. The suit also names the manufacturers of the sled and slide John Does one through five, alleging their defective equipment created an unreasonable danger. The suit said Fisher has incurred severe and debilitating injuries, medical expenses and loss of earnings. It asks for a jury trial against both defendants and seeks general, special and punitive damages. The plaintiff in the ski lift suit is Mildred Berkell, a resident of North Miami Beach, Fla. The suit said on Feb. 2, 1983, Berkell, a novice skier, took about 90 minutes of instruction on the novice slopes from an instructor. Her group then was told to board the Three Kings lift and she rode up in the same chair with her instructor. Only just before leaving the lift, did the instructor tell her Three Kings lift was faster and more difficult to exit than the previous lift she had ridden, the suit says. Following that, the suit says, she fell and was injured exiting the lift. As a result, the suit said, Berkell has suffered permanent and continuing back pain, including an "acute compression fracture" and osteoporosis (bone loss), pain and tenderness in the back, over the ribs and in the upper lumbar area. It said Greater Park City, through its employee, the instructor, was negligent in not warning, preparing or assisting Berkell in exiting the lift. It also was negligent in telling a novice skier to board a ski lift beyond her ability, the suit says. The suit asks for damages resulting from mental and physical suffering and loss of bodily function, lost wages, medical expenses of more than $3,000 and mounting, and other damages to be determined. |