experts at the paltrow trial have argued that the national ski areas associations more than 60yearold code is ubiquitous with similar etiquette in canada australia and parts of europe the responsibility code was recently updated to urge skiers involved in a collision to share contact information with each other and a ski area employee last week paltrow was grilled by sandersons attorneys for leaving the collision without first exchanging information with sanderson she said she knew one of the familys ski instructors handled that for her very few cases target the ski resorts where crashes occurred because of the inherent dangers that come with skiing and snowboarding los angeles attorney john morgan of the firm morgan morgan said the mountain where the paltrowsanderson collision happened deer valley was removed from the lawsuit in part because skiers absolve resorts of responsibility by agreeing to a set of rules on the back of every lift ticket its like going to a baseball game and you get hit in the head by a foul ball you know by sitting there that theres some risk of that happening he said