Maison Law helps skiers hurt while at Three Points Ski Resort/Buckhorn Ski and Snowboard Club. Ski Resort operators and managers can be held accountable when they are negligent with safety on their slopes or in their lodge. They can be liable for a victim’s medical expenses, lost time at work, and more.
We offer a free, no-obligation case consultation to all injured ski accident victims. It’s a no-risk way to find out how much your case is worth and how to hold a ski resort fully liable.
When You Could Use a Lawyer’s Help
The type of bills that come along with a serious injury on a ski trip, when resort owners’ negligence is to blame, are usually a clear signal that a lawyer could probably help you to a better outcome.
A more serious injury will bring higher medical bills and more lost time at work for you. This raises the value of an injury claim, and makes insurers for resorts and the resort’s corporate lawyers scramble. They seek loopholes in their guest agreements to find ways to toss out your claim. They look for ways to blame your accident on clumsiness. They also want to downplay how badly you are hurt and how long you’ll take to recover.
A Three Points Ski Injury Lawyer is a protection against this type of treatment. Your lawyer fully investigates your accident and how owners and operators could have prevented it. Your lawyer also boosts the value of your claim and can often win you much more for your injuries than you could by filing a claim yourself.
A lawyer is often a powerful advantage with cases involving these serious injuries and outcomes, and others:
- Broken bones (arm fractures, leg fractures)
- Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) including serious concussions
- Spinal column injuries
- Back injuries
- Neck injuries
- Knee and hip injuries (e.g., ligament, muscle, and tendon tears)
- Shoulder injuries
- Deep cuts and puncture wounds
- A facial injury
- Any injury that will lead to a permanent physical disability
- A loved one, including your child, suffers a serious injury
- A loved one’s death at a ski resort
Victims can always file a claim on their own, but the protection of a lawyer is sometimes needed when taking on a business or the board members of a club.
A Free Consultation with a Real Accident Attorney
You can be stuck at home healing from a broken leg and waiting for a settlement check to arrive to pay your mounting hospital bills. But for some victims, that check either never comes, or it arrives but provides too little support to pay for everything they’ve been through. Maison Law doesn’t want this to happen to you.
Contact Maison Law to schedule a free, confidential case consultation to figure out how to put pressure on ski resort operators to accept blame and do the right thing…and to act soon enough to keep you from experiencing lasting financial consequences. Our free case reviews with a real lawyer are a no-obligation chance to find out what resort owners should be paying you.
Compensation for Ski Accident Victims
Your lawyer also works with you and your doctors to determine everything you’ll need to cover your medical care to this point, and to estimate the cost of care you could require in the years ahead.
These financial hardships and other hardships you’ve endured all go into a full list, backed with documentation, to be submitted with your insurance claim.
Your California Ski Injury Lawyer seeks compensation for some things you may not have known could increase the size of your settlement check:
- Money to pay current medical bills and those expected in the future
- Money to cover all rehabilitation and physical therapy costs
- Lifelong support for a permanent physical disability
- Support for the pain you endure and may continue to experience
- Support for your emotional distress during a difficult recovery
- Support for your loss of enjoyment of life, including the ski trips you must give up
- Replacement of all lost paychecks and benefits
- Travel costs getting to doctor’s appointments and to see out-of-area specialists
- Repair or replacement of damaged ski equipment
Families who lose a close relative to a ski accident that could have been prevented can seek wrongful death support. This support should pay all funeral costs and any leftover medical bills. It should cover the future income a loved one would have continued to support the family each week. The love and guidance the family can no longer receive from the deceased should also earn support. The lost family moments must also earn support, such as the victim’s absence from holiday gatherings, weddings, and children’s births.
Finding Out Who Is Responsible for a Ski Accident
Ski enthusiasts from Los Angeles, L.A. County, and across Southern California can make a trip up into the mountains to visit Three Points Ski Resort, also referred to as Buckhorn Ski and Snowboard Club.
The Resort and Club is overseen by a board of governors. They have a legal duty to keep visitors and members as safe as possible as they enjoy the lodge and the slopes nearby. The Federal Government owns the land and could also be held accountable for unsafe conditions if someone gets hurt.
These are just a few of the parties who could be held accountable for the costs of injury recovery:
- Other skiers who make reckless moves
- Ski Club administrators
- Mt. Waterman resort owners if club members use the nearby ski lift (resort is currently closed as of 2026 due to road damage as reported by ABC7 TV)
- A rental company or tour group separate from the resort
- Manufacturers who make skis and slope equipment that fails or malfunctions
- The United States Forest Service
The truth is any of these parties could bear responsibility for a hazard and the accidents it causes. A skilled attorney would explore every option and file claims against multiple agencies if appropriate. This would give victims the best chance to earn enough to cover all their recovery losses.
One note: If your injury case involves negligence on the part of the U.S. Forest Service, you must act quickly. Filing claims against an government entity can come with much shorter statute of limitations. An experienced attorney can help you beat sneaky deadlines and make sure complicated paperwork is filled out correctly.
Potential Hazards at Buckhorn Ski Lodge
Skiing can be a fast-moving sport, and participants can easily get hurt while heading down hill and losing control. They can take a tumble or head into a stand of trees to suffer serious injuries.
Skiers are also exposed to normal personal injury dangers when walking across parking lots, taking a flight of stairs to a lodge or to their hotel rooms.
These are just a few of the situations that can leave victims hurt and in need support:
- Slip-And-Fall accidents around the lodge and on stairs. Ice and snow causing slips and trips on sidewalks. Falls down collapsing stairs or decks.
- Lodge dangers, slippery floors, and Carbon Monoxide poisoning risks
- Pedestrian accidents in parking lots. Car accidents on Route 2.
- Collisions on the slope caused by reckless skiers or snowboarders.
- Unmarked slope hazards such as tree wells, cliffs, streams, and bare ground.
- Broken bindings.
- Unsafe or untrained employees.
- A mistake during an emergency rescue by the ski patrol.
- Snowtubing and snowmobiling accidents caused by carelessness.
If You Sign a Waiver
Even members or visitors who sign a waiver of liability can often file claims and earn support. A legal waiver may protect owners and operators from litigation for normal, expected hazards of skiing down a mountain, but that doesn’t exclude them from all responsibility. When hazards go beyond the normal dangers skiing comes with, and owners’ negligence creates risks that aren’t usually present, victims can file lawsuits.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can I do if I’m visiting Three Points from another state and suffer a ski injury?
Maison Law can help any ski accident victim from Los Angeles County or anyone who gets hurt while visiting from out of state. Victims can return to their homes in other states and often leave the entire claims process to a local ski injury lawyer. We strive to deal with local court filings and evidence collections, in some cases, making it unnecessary for victims to have to return to the Los Angeles area to win recovery support.
Can my family seek support if a loved one is killed in a ski accident around Buckhorn Ski and Snowboard Club?
Yes. Family members should file claims if a loved one is killed around Three Points Ski Resort and someone’s negligence contributed to the tragic death. A wrongful death claim should offer help to pay all funeral costs and any leftover medical bills. It should cover the future income a loved one would have continued to support the family with each week. The love and guidance the family can no longer receive from the deceased should also earn support. The lost family moments must also earn support, such as the victim’s absence from holiday gatherings, weddings, and children’s births.
How long do I have to file a ski accident claim?
Two years. Ski injury victims are granted up to two years to file a claim against a ski resort or a related business around the resort. Families who lose a loved one to a deadly accident would be under the same time limit. Victims and their families should act quickly, though. Evidence can get lost or erased when victims wait months or years to explore their potential for a claim.
Contact a Three Points Ski Injury Lawyer
Maison Law offers a free case review to anyone injured at Three Points ski resort when the negligence of another skier, or a club or business, is to blame. We will tell you if we can’t help you earn more and send you in the right direction to file a successful claim yourself.
If we can probably win you more in support, we’ll clearly explain why. Remember, while you’re facing a stack of hospital bills, you don’t have to worry about how to get a lawyer paid. Maison Law works with no upfront charges. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the support check that insurers are forced to write for you.
