Liability

Kristie Wilder said:

Tulsa Slim said:

Club officers and board members, field trial or hunt test chairman, secretary, committee, property owner and perhaps judges , marshals, gun captains, event safety coordinator , are all these unpaid volunteers are at risk of being individually sued should an accident resulting in permanent injury or death occur at a club test or trial?

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all of them can be sued individually. I'm speaking from experience... Whether it holds up in court is another thing.

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Basically what Kristie is saying here is that "anyone can be sued at any time for any thing."

It's true.

The other part of what she said is also true - getting it to stand up in court is another matter.


I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. But in most cases (ie. with a reasonable jury & judge that are actually following the law), for a judgment to come out in favor of the plaintiff, gross negligence has to be proven.

Re: liability

Tom Watson said:

Chris:

I agree with you, but my point is that it may cost you the price of a blossoming three year old Field Champion to prove you were not grossly negligent.

Innocent until proven guilty is expensive regards,

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True. But that is true of anything we do in life.

Personally, I wouldn't want to live my life being afraid of being sued. Besides, what's that old saying:

You can't get blood from a rock...

Broke regards,