[Ansteorra] Ansteorra Digest, Vol 26, Issue 51

[Robert Fitzmorgan]

    We hear from time to tiem about an employee at a resturant who is sick
and everyone who has eaten at that resturant during a certin time period
should see their doctor, or contact the health department to be checked
out.  Generally the resturant is responsable for the bills.
    If we have an issue like this we could have a situation where someone's
medical insurance pays for treatment and then sues the SCA to recover their
cost.  The SCA member might have no option but to cooperate with the suit or
pay the bills themselves.  Because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it
can't.


Robert



On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Joe McGrew <oscagne at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> Less availability of water = more risk of heat related casualty -
> especially, as you noted elsewhere, at melees.
>
> There's really only one more thing that sits wrong with me about this:
>  The SCA would be taking this action to remove liability from itself
> for the activity of waterbearing - but not removing the activity.
> It's been said that operation could continue just as before, simply
> having a guild or something do it without official sanction.  Since
> the activity is still there the liability won't have been removed - it
> will have been transferred to those gracious private volunteers.  "I
> want to commend our great waterbearing guild today.  For your
> outstanding efforts we give you our thanks and admiration... oh, and a
> great heaping helping of liability."
>
> Not that I think there's enough liability here that we need to change
> anything.  Has anyone even threatened action related to waterbearing
> duties or are we fixing something that isn't broken?
>
> So, (and of course IANAL) if the activity is continuing just as before
> and not being prohibited, there's very little difference between that
> and official sanction.  Couldn't the SCA be sued just as easily for
> allowing it to go on at sanctioned events?  A lawyer that would sue as
> things stand now would probably also sue under the new rules.
>
> Anyway, all I wanted to happen is to put in my two cents and encourage
> folks to use that suggestion email address to send a comment to the
> BOD.  I hope everyone who's posted about this here copied the BOD.
>
> Gregor MacBeathain
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