{"id":25027,"date":"2011-08-26T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25027"},"modified":"2011-08-26T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:35:26","slug":"injured-california-surfer-sues-channel-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25027","title":{"rendered":"Injured California Surfer Sues Channel Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/channel_island.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/channel_island.jpg','popup','width=280,height=105,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/channel_island-tm.jpg\" height=\"75\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Channel Island\" \/><\/a><strong>Tom Gregg<\/strong>, a California surfer who suffered a &#8220;deep gash&#8221; on his right leg while surfing in France in 2009 filed suit in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasuperiorcourt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County Superior Court <\/a><\/strong>on Wednesday, August 24, 2011, against <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisurfboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Channel Islands Surfboards<\/a><\/strong> claiming:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe surfboard, fins and their component parts were unsafe for their intended use. . . Gregg\u2019s attorney, <strong>Jeffrey Karpel<\/strong>, said the fins are so sharp some surfers cover them with protective sleeves. Gregg was not aware of that before the injury, Karpel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story Channel Island&#8217;s GM Scott Anderson says this is the first liability claim that he has heard of. While this kind of injury is no surprise to surfers or companies like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfcohawaii.com\/Pro-Teck-Fins-s\/26.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SurfCo Hawaii<\/a><\/strong> (makers of <strong>Pro Teck<\/strong> fins), it does seem a little like Gregg is blaming his equipment. It will be interesting to see how <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton<\/a><\/strong> lawyers proceed with this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/money_co\/2011\/08\/surfer-tells-board-manufacturer-pay-up-brah.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Gregg, a California surfer who suffered a &#8220;deep gash&#8221; on his right leg while surfing in France in 2009 filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, August 24, 2011, against Channel Islands Surfboards claiming: \u201cThe surfboard, fins and their component parts were unsafe for their intended use. . . Gregg\u2019s attorney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25028,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions\/25028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}