'A lot at stake': Idaho Supreme Court rules in favor of Sun Valley in skier death case

Idaho Supreme Court overturns earlier ruling in Sun Valley ski death case • Idaho Capital Sun

Skiers ride the Mayday lift near the top of Bald Mountain, the highest point at Sun Valley Ski Resort in Idaho. (Getty Images)The Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned a controversial earlier decision that had sent alarm through the ski industry in Idaho and nationwide, holding instead that a lower court was right to dismiss a lawsuit from the widow of a skier who died after crashing into a snowmaking tower gun at Sun Valley. S…

'A lot at stake': Idaho Supreme Court rules in favor of Sun Valley in skier death case

After a nearly six-year legal battle, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled in favor of Sun Valley Company in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Idaho Supreme Court overturns earlier ruling in Sun Valley ski death case

The Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously overturned a controversial earlier decision that had sent alarm through the ski industry in Idaho and nationwide, holding instead that a lower court was right to dismiss a lawsuit from the widow of a skier who died after crashing into a snowmaking tower gun at Sun Valley.The court, however, with just one justice dissenting, upheld its earlier ruling that departed from decades of precedent in Idaho…