KEYSTONE, CO – Working as a ski patroller has challenges that many are familiar with; attending to medical issues and maintaining a safe ski area. Recently at Colorado’s Keystone Resort, they have had to add another concern to their responsibilities, keeping money-hungry lawyers away from injured skiers.
If you have traveled the Interstate 70 mountain corridor you’ve seen the billboards for personal injury attorneys advertising to recently broken skiers. That is not enough for some lawyers as they are now attempting to contact injured skiers on the mountain while being attended to by ski patrol.
“We’ve had to deploy an additional patroller to every medical evac on the mountain this winter. We need them to run interference to physically keep these lawyers away from our patients,” said Keystone patroller Fred Dieter.
It is unclear to resort management how these attorneys find the injured parties so quickly. It has been reported that sometimes the attorneys arrive before ski patrol.
“Maybe they have a scanner and are listening to our radios, but they’re on an encrypted channel. We believe we may have a mole,” said Vail Resorts’ security officer Hillary Butte.
