Nov 21
Massachusetts Ski Area Loses Insurance, Closes
The Blue Hills Ski Area in suburban Boston has shut down indefinitely while the private operator of the state-owned facility scrambles to find new liability insurance coverage.
The ski area hopes to have coverage in a matter of days, but there are no guarantees according to a spokesman for Ragged Mountain Resort, the company that operates Blue Hills. “We are not giving up, we have not lost hope, we just need coverage-right now we are expecting a call anytime from our insurer to say ‘Okay, we will write this.”
A lawsuit by an injured skier required the ski area’s former insurer to put aside $200,000 to meet a possible claim, Pins said. With that claim pending, a new insurer took over the ski area’s policy and opted not to renew the liability insurance. Why a ski resort operator would sign a new policy with a company that excluded liability coverage is a question that remains unanswered.
The state will not allow the ski area to operate without coverage – a sensible policy for public facilities or private. Meanwhile, the closure of the facility in Canton a few miles south of Boston has left high school ski teams that use the Blue Hills slopes for practices and races in the lurch.
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November 24th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Why WOULD someone sign on with a new insurance company which refused to allow them to continue operations? I don\’t get it. Canton is a really nice area, and Blue Hills is some of the closest skiing to downtown Boston… with Winter coming on, this seems a pretty poor time for them not to be able to make the most of the cold weather and the start of the skiing season. Color me confused.
Jerry
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