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Originally Posted by fitump56
Lets suppose there never ever has been a succesful lawsuit. Are you willing to support the argument that since it is a legend that the consequences cannot be severe? That its a frivolous act to take every precaution that you are not the first?  |
Since I'm pretty sure you've read what I wrote previously in this thread, you know I am not making your first argument.
To reiterate: buy the insurance!
As for the second: kinda depends upon what you actually mean by "every precaution", don't it?
My first "applies to all cases" piece of advice [also in previous posts, above]: DO YOUR JOB RE: SAFETY RULES.
The point of my comments about the "legend" staus of many of these "reports" [including, by the way, yours] is this: it is possible to get one's shorts in such a wad about avoiding any possible source of liability that it seems the only rational response is to retreat inside, lock the doors and never come out. It is silly to get all that worked up by a liability where there are, by every reasonable measure, NO INSTANCES where there has ever been a final judgment imposing liability for negligence on an umpire for game-related injury. [So we're clear: lightning a different story, ditto INTENTIONAL misconduct, such as assault] Does that mean you can't be/ won't be sued by some dolt for calling Johnny out ["when he was CLEARLY safe"] in the final inning of the Big Game and thereby ruining his future and costing him and his parents millions in deeply felt emotional distress? [or something equally silly] Noooo... but that's not the point, is it? You may get sued, but they won't win. So: DO YOUR JOB, and BUY THE INSURANCE; and you can umpire your games with "the calm assurance of a christian holding four aces."
fit... I've DONE the "search" you have repeatedly suggested would disclose "many" of these judgments ... I know of at least two insurance companies that have researched the industry databases looking for such suits ... the results are always the same: nothing to report.
That's why those of us interrested in this issue [me, Tee, Hensley, others] keep asking; IF YOU KNOW ABOUT ONE OF THESE: TELL US THE DETAILS so we can go look it up. Pretending you know someting we don't and all that is neccesary is to "go look it up": without providing a single party's name, not one Court or case citation, not even a locality and date is just bogus.
If you know: tell... o/w you clearly don't know, except what "everybody knows".. which is what makes "urban legends".