RE: [Paddlewise] Insurance and legal action

Gordin Warner said:


> can anyone site a real 
> case of a kayak club being successfully sued.
> 

Even if the suit is unsuccessful you still lose. Do you think that your
attorney will work for free? It will cost you big bucks to defend against a
lawsuit.

So either way, you lose. That's why I don't ever set myself up as a "leader"
of a trip, and even so, I'm still taking a risk of being sued because I
organized a trip. Even if several people get together and paddle informally,
if something were to happen to one of the other participants, the others can
be sued because they didn't do what their own training should have trained
them to do.

So there are no winners except for the attorneys. Win or lose, you still
lose.

Steve Holtzman
Southern Calif
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