California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brown v. Henderson, A143384 (Cal. App. 2016):
6. The defense of inherent risk, to the extent it exists, is actually one aspect of the assumption of risk doctrine (Fazio v. Fairbanks Ranch Country Club (2015) 233 Cal.App.4th 1053, 1059), not negligence. The defense was not invoked here. As explained in the text, plaintiffs' argument is actually that there was no sufficient evidence to support a finding that invasion of the eye socket was an inherent risk of this surgery.
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