graduates] to perform these tasks, the law enforcement training at [the Academy] is necessarily demanding in many ways including that of a physical nature.” The training program obviously benefits the public interest. In this setting, the inclusion of an exculpatory agreement—which is not prohibited by the Police Training Act —has the salutary effect of shielding those involved in providing that important service from the time and expense of defending against personal injury claims likely to accrue from the very nature of the training program. In this same vein, striking down the exculpatory agreement could have a deleterious effect on these highly important training programs. Barring exculpation from claims could result in a lessening of the rigorous nature of the program and caus (<HOLDING>). On the other hand, we have enforced
holding similar agreement void on public policy grounds holding it against public policy for a hospital to extract an exculpatory agreement from its patients prior to treatment holding that release of patients claims for negligent and wrongful conduct in hospitals preadmission form was against public policy and not enforceable holding it against public policy for a common carrier to stipulate for exemption of liability in the event its negligence results in injury to its passengers holding that it was not against public policy to enforce an agreement providing for deferred royalties on an invention whether or not a patent was ultimately granted