[Ares-races] Re: ARES-RACES Digest, Vol 14, Issue 4

[N4AOF]

> As i stated, we are UNPAYED outside contractors.
> We just have outside contractor status to protect the
> county from liability and allow them to run background
> checks

There are just a couple of small problems with this:

1. It does NOT shield the county from liability to others for anything you 
do or fail to do.

2. It DOES leave you on the hook for your own legal defense if someone 
chooses to sue the county AND you for anything they think you or the county 
did or failed to do

3. It enables the County to evade the legal requirement for Workers 
Compensation coverage on you, but...

4. It probably does not mean you are not entitled to Workers Compensation 
coverage, but you would have to pay your own legal fees to take the county 
to court over their attempt to dodge responsibility (and the County will try 
to claim soverign immunity before it even bothers trying to defend its 
position in court).

The bottom line is quite simply that anyone who accepts such an arrangement 
is simply hoping that nothing ever goes wrong or is confident that they 
personally have nothing to lose including their health, their property, 
their income, and their life.