If you're at all connected or interested in the local or national music scene, particularly of the more alternative variety, you're now doubt aware that in just a few hours the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be kicking off for another big year with over 100,000 music fans and compulsive partiers choking the usually quiet area outside of town. Now, being personal injury attorneys does not make us entirely immune to the charms of Blur, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. and the Stone Roses (well, some of us are). However, the business we are in forces us to mention the downside of not just Coachella but any music venue where situations might arise that are a bit more intense than those you might find in, say, a sparsely attended jazz club.
A good example would be the recent case of New Jersey man who is suing an area club because of injuries received in a punk rock mosh pit -- they still exist! -- which he says he was dragged into against his will. A case from last year had one of Chris Brown's bodyguards suing New York's W.i.P. (The man apparently received an out of court settlement from the club.) Obviously, the legal merits of these kind of cases vary. Still, these things will happen in any situation where people are out and some may be ingesting alcohol and possibly other mood altering substances -- and we all know that many types of contemporary music don't really fit the old "soothe the savage breast" mode. The smartest thing to do is just to be careful and avoid excessive rowdiness.
Coachella seems to be an unusually safe event considering the setting and the large number of people who show up -- a quick Google search found little publicly known work for personal injury lawyers (we saw one entirely unverified mention of a death back in 2008.) Probably the extremes of daytime heat and nighttime cold are the most dangerous things about the event. So, please, be careful if you're ready to head to a festival or local night clubs. At the risk of putting ourselves out of business, it's much better to have fun and be safe than to need a personal injury lawyer.
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