[Ansteorra] SCA vs Nonmembers

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AT the least it could tie it up in court for a very long time. Which is
something that I think all of us would like to avoid. Not to mention the
problems with getting agreeable/affordable sites as it is.

Susannah Blackthorne


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> ****SNIP****
> >        Imagine if you will a feast at an event.  The Head Cook is a paid
> > member, and has both members and nonmembers helping out in the kitchen.
> > During the course of preparing the feast a grease fire starts and
> > gets out of control burning down the feast hall.  Various people,
> > members and nonmembers have been tending the stove but no one is
> > at the stove when the fire starts.
> > It seems posable to me that the SCAs insurance carrier could refuse
> > to pay because there were nonmembers present and the SCA might then
> > sue all the nonmembers who were helping in the kitchen, to recover losses.
> > Consider that the cost of replacing a large building might well be more
> than
> > the SCA Inc. could pay.
>
> Umm....I know I'm over *my* head here (but then, that never stopped me
> before...) I do know that there are similar precedents that *could* apply.
> For instance, if an organization prepares (and sells) food, only *one*
> kitchen member (presumably, the one in charge) is required to have a Food
> Handler's License. They are assumed to have control over the workers
> underneath them, and as such are ensuring the safety, etc. of the kitchen
> staff and food prep.
>
> Does this apply to insurance?...who knows? ...*I'm* certainly not an
> insurance lawyer (if I were, I think I'd tell Mom I was a male
> prostitute...it's more respectable *G*.)
> But, as has been said before, in many cases, what is right (or legal) has
> little to do with winning the case; it's a matter of who has the better
> lawyer.
>
> So, this may be an important discussion; it may be an intereting
> diversion...or we may be blowing smoke, and wating out time.
>
> Alden
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