[TheForge] lawyers and hold harmless ( was Re: anyone know of a disabled person wanting to take up blacksmithing?

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On 4/10/2011 1:45 PM, terry l. ridder wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Andrew Vida wrote:
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>> Well, I'm good and crazy, so you can send it all here.
>>
>> As for your lawyers, WTF?  What in god's green acre could they be all
>> nervous nellie about helping some poor bastard with some tooling?
>>
>
> they site countless frivolous lawsuits filed against donors of a vast
> list of items that the party receiving the donation was either
> alledgedly injured by or in someway harmed. many donors settle to avoid
> long drawn out legal fees. other donors battle it out and eventually win
> in the courts but lose financially because of the legal costs of
> defending themself in the courts.
>
> since many of the items i made myself or repaired myself, they are
> concerned about "product liability".
>
> the lawyers consider "hold warmless agreements" a complete and total
> waste of paper and time.
>
> they do not want to see me end up in more legal nightmares.
>
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>> If nothing else, you can always have the recipient sign a release/waiver.
>>
>> Jesus tapdancing christ... what a world.
>>
>> BTW, I was being somewhat facetious in asking my question.
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