Select an article below, or browse the summaries that follow.
- Can Someone Use Your Horse Photo Without Permission?
Understand publicity rights and possible remedies when a business uses your name, image, or likeness for commercial promotion without consent.
- Why Strong Equine Liability Cases Sometimes Settle
Learn how defense costs, uncertain outcomes, appeal risks, and economics can make settlement sensible even when strong defenses exist.
- How Equine Businesses Can Preserve Corporate Liability Protection
Nine practical steps for respecting corporate formalities and reducing the risk that business liabilities reach an owner’s personal assets.
- Horse Registration Papers: Who Owns Them After a Sale?
Explore ownership disputes involving registration papers and the contract terms buyers and sellers should address before completing a sale.
- Why Equine Liability Waivers Fail: Law, Wording, and Signing Problems
Examine three common failure points: unfavorable state law, defective language, and problems with how the waiver was presented or signed.
- How to Make an Equine Liability Waiver More Enforceable
Improve waiver language, presentation, signatures, renewal practices, and record retention while recognizing that waivers do not replace insurance.
- Horse Insurance Mistakes That Can Jeopardize a Claim
Avoid late notice, undervaluation, renewal surprises, and misunderstandings about mortality, loss-of-use, and major-medical coverage.
- Common Equine Liability Insurance Myths That Can Leave You Unprotected
Correct misconceptions about liability statutes, waivers, homeowners policies, umbrella coverage, care-custody-control, workers’ compensation, and event insurance.
- Volunteer Liability at Horse Shows, Stables, and Equine Organizations
Understand when volunteers and the organizations they serve may face liability—and how insurance, supervision, and agreements can reduce risk.
- Five More Clauses to Strengthen Equine Contracts
Address form-contract limitations, waiver details, state-specific rules, attorney fees, and insurance responsibilities in equine agreements.
- Five Essential Clauses for Equine Contracts
Review indemnification, statutory warnings, dispute resolution, written-modification requirements, and authority to sign for a corporation.
- Lower-Cost Ways to Resolve an Equine Legal Dispute
Compare negotiation, mediation, arbitration, small-claims court, and limited legal assistance as alternatives to full-scale litigation.
- Defective Equine Products: Who May Be Legally Responsible?
Review possible claims against manufacturers and sellers when defective tack, equipment, feed, medication, or other products cause harm.
- Equine Liability Waiver Myths: What Releases Can and Cannot Do
Correct common misconceptions about enforceability, minors, negligence, warning signs, form releases, and the continuing need for liability insurance.
- Equine Insurance Myths: What Horse Owners and Businesses Often Get Wrong
Clarify common misunderstandings about policy coverage, liability protection, claims, and the role of specialized equine insurance.
- Equine Activity Liability Laws: Common Myths and Real Limitations
Learn what state equine activity statutes may protect, which exceptions still allow lawsuits, and why insurance remains essential.
- How to Avoid Legal Disputes When Buying a Horse
Reduce purchase disputes with a written agreement, independent veterinary exam, clear representations, and complete transaction records.
- How to Choose and Hire the Right Lawyer for an Equine Dispute
Learn how to evaluate experience, fees, communication, conflicts, strategy, and subject-matter knowledge before retaining counsel.
- What Is Equine Law, and Do You Need an Equine Lawyer?
Understand what equine law covers and when industry familiarity can help an attorney handle a horse-related matter effectively.
- How to Protect Horse-Keeping Rights in Your Community
Practical steps for responding to zoning changes, development pressure, complaints, and local proposals that threaten horse properties.
- Can Someone Use Your Horse Photo Without Permission?
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Understand publicity rights and possible remedies when a business uses your name, image, or likeness for commercial promotion without consent.
- Why Strong Equine Liability Cases Sometimes Settle
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Learn how defense costs, uncertain outcomes, appeal risks, and economics can make settlement sensible even when strong defenses exist.
- How Equine Businesses Can Preserve Corporate Liability Protection
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Nine practical steps for respecting corporate formalities and reducing the risk that business liabilities reach an owner’s personal assets.
- Horse Registration Papers: Who Owns Them After a Sale?
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Explore ownership disputes involving registration papers and the contract terms buyers and sellers should address before completing a sale.
- Why Equine Liability Waivers Fail: Law, Wording, and Signing Problems
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Examine three common failure points: unfavorable state law, defective language, and problems with how the waiver was presented or signed.
- How to Make an Equine Liability Waiver More Enforceable
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Improve waiver language, presentation, signatures, renewal practices, and record retention while recognizing that waivers do not replace insurance.
- Horse Insurance Mistakes That Can Jeopardize a Claim
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Avoid late notice, undervaluation, renewal surprises, and misunderstandings about mortality, loss-of-use, and major-medical coverage.
- Common Equine Liability Insurance Myths That Can Leave You Unprotected
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Correct misconceptions about liability statutes, waivers, homeowners policies, umbrella coverage, care-custody-control, workers’ compensation, and event insurance.
- Volunteer Liability at Horse Shows, Stables, and Equine Organizations
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Understand when volunteers and the organizations they serve may face liability—and how insurance, supervision, and agreements can reduce risk.
- Five More Clauses to Strengthen Equine Contracts
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Address form-contract limitations, waiver details, state-specific rules, attorney fees, and insurance responsibilities in equine agreements.
- Five Essential Clauses for Equine Contracts
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Review indemnification, statutory warnings, dispute resolution, written-modification requirements, and authority to sign for a corporation.
- Lower-Cost Ways to Resolve an Equine Legal Dispute
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Compare negotiation, mediation, arbitration, small-claims court, and limited legal assistance as alternatives to full-scale litigation.
- Defective Equine Products: Who May Be Legally Responsible?
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Review possible claims against manufacturers and sellers when defective tack, equipment, feed, medication, or other products cause harm.
- Equine Liability Waiver Myths: What Releases Can and Cannot Do
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Correct common misconceptions about enforceability, minors, negligence, warning signs, form releases, and the continuing need for liability insurance.
- Equine Insurance Myths: What Horse Owners and Businesses Often Get Wrong
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Clarify common misunderstandings about policy coverage, liability protection, claims, and the role of specialized equine insurance.
- Equine Activity Liability Laws: Common Myths and Real Limitations
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Learn what state equine activity statutes may protect, which exceptions still allow lawsuits, and why insurance remains essential.
- How to Avoid Legal Disputes When Buying a Horse
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Reduce purchase disputes with a written agreement, independent veterinary exam, clear representations, and complete transaction records.
- How to Choose and Hire the Right Lawyer for an Equine Dispute
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Learn how to evaluate experience, fees, communication, conflicts, strategy, and subject-matter knowledge before retaining counsel.
- What Is Equine Law, and Do You Need an Equine Lawyer?
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Understand what equine law covers and when industry familiarity can help an attorney handle a horse-related matter effectively.
- How to Protect Horse-Keeping Rights in Your Community
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Practical steps for responding to zoning changes, development pressure, complaints, and local proposals that threaten horse properties.
