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Teen forced to close fair booth, couldn't afford $5,000 for liability insurance
Bangor News ^ | August 03, 2005

Posted on 08/08/2005 6:19:03 AM PDT by robowombat

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To: lewislynn
It's not the right thing to do.

She's is correct that additional costs require additional capital.

61 posted on 08/08/2005 10:04:07 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Blessed
But if the Vender had adequate policy limits the city would be indemnified.

Link? Citation? (Specifically for this type of situation, this state...)

62 posted on 08/08/2005 10:15:07 AM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: TaxRelief

>Link? Citation? (Specifically for this type of situation, this state...)<

Common sense.If the vender has adequate policy limits any settlement is paid by their policy.Deep pockets only come into play when first pockets are not deep enough. If you were in business you would know that certificates of insurance are required by any major reseller or retail landlord before doing business with any vender and they set minimum policy limits.


63 posted on 08/08/2005 1:29:31 PM PDT by Blessed
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To: tarheelswamprat

>Nonsense. Fair officials don't usually carry a copy of the policy around with them; they use the "list" which has been compiled based on either empirical data or obvious common sense.<

Never seen a commercial insurance policy have you? The risk manager and or city attorney is very aware of the policy categories that are excluded from coverage.Insurance Companies pay underwriters very well to write broad exclusions in policies and analyze whether they have excluded every possible risk.They then charge big bucks for an endorsement granting an exception.


64 posted on 08/08/2005 1:38:44 PM PDT by Blessed
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Well thank the nice lawyers.

Yep. And how's that Republican Party promise of Tort Reform coming along? Or was that just more electioneering crap from the "Party of Limited Government" that claims to free us from such legal oppression?

65 posted on 08/08/2005 1:41:05 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: goldstategop

"Yep. Small business are the key to keeping America economically vibrant. Politicians have no idea what it takes to run one."

Go back to the early days of the Clinton administration. When Robert Reich was Secretary of Labor. Reich was extremely anti-small business, and wanted to consolidate businesses into "combines" I believe the term was. Did he really mean collectives?


66 posted on 08/08/2005 1:48:17 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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