BigJT, are you reading this? This hits a personal sore spot, so I shall rant!
I'll betcha individual board members can be sued individually if they are directly involved with organizing the particular activity in which the show visitor was injured. If the board members merely run the general budget,advertizing, etc., and the actual working show itself is managed by others, then the board might be fairly immune.
Even though the show might be a non-profit corporation, most shows are small enough that the directors are usually the ones making the direct decisions about how the exhibits are set up and run.
If kids are riding on the fenders and, god forbid, one falls off and is killed, or maimed for life, the board members individually could be hung for not creating and enforcing safety rules prohibiting passengers without an approved seat, for example.
If an experienced old farmer walks beside a moving belt, and the belt grabs his coat, his lawyer will make it sound like the farmer had never been around a belt before, and didn't have any idea the belt was dangerous. Board members were directly involved with the layout of that area so they individually should have been aware that a shield should have been in place to protect the visitors.
I can just hear the plaintiff's lawyer asking the board members if there was a safety meeting, or if the list of rules was read and signed by the exhibitors, while witnessed by a show representative.
I was on a board of directors for a threshing show for a little over 20 years. We were all individually assigned certain areas that we were responsible for. In my view that put us all individually liable if we overlooked some safety issue associated with our individual area, and someone was hurt because of it. The rant is over!Jim
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