Do you umpire a forfeited game?

[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by ASA/NYSSOBLUE

You better make sure that the rec dept understands the terms 'liability' and 'risk'...and your assignor makes sure that they WILL pick up all of your legal fees and such if anything happens in that hour...just because it is 'recreational', doesnt lessen any of the risks you occur.

I don't believe that is true in these circumstances. So far as I understand from the representatives of Bollinger insurance, the ASA liability coverage extends to any regularly scheduled game assigned by an ASA organization, where the teams and umpires are all registered ASA. Whatever rules are published and accepted as standard are expected to be enforced.

If the local league rules state that a team can play with 4 players, the umpires are covered when they play that game. If the local rules state that a scrimmage is to be umpired in the event of a forfeit, the umpires are covered. In fact, I believe that the "don't quote me" quote from John Spiota, representing Bollinger at the ASA National UIC Clinic was "if your local (written) rules state that you play with hand grenades as balls, your umpires will be covered. Don't expect us to keep the rates the same when the claims start coming in, though." Mike, so yopu recall anything different?