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Part of the model release you sign as a performer is a statement that waives your right to collect damages if contracting ANY disease.



Sorry Gia, that won't fly in court. You can waive rights to collect damages for some types of situations but certainly not with an HIV infection. A football player might be able to waive, for example, rights to sue over a broken limb on the condition that the team pay for treatment, but you could never waive rights for, say, Russian Roulette.

Being an independent contractor doesn't help here. You're not allowed to place others at such risk whether they work for you or not. pornlaw's example was merely over how the production company got in trouble, not whether.

This is all state law and presumably well litigated in Hollywood, but basically for some waivers to be enforced in court the company would have to show that they made all reasonable efforts at avoidance and all reasonable efforts at mitigation, probably more to it than that. Were any of the girls in the last outbreak to sue T.T. Boy he wouldn't have a chance of asserting such a waiver.
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