Disclaimers & Litigations

[FJ and G]

I'm somewhat surprised to see model railroaders not part of a commercial venture, adding disclaimers to their websites. Not all do, but some are doing it.

Some people on forums even do when offering advice.

Here's a sample of one:

http://www.stratuswave.net/~wd8jik/

DISCLAIMER:
Since we are dealing with 1. Sharp tools, 2. Electricity, 3. Hazardous and explosive fumes, 4. Hot glue, soldering irons and heat guns, I have been advised to add a disclaimer for these pages.
I have placed pages here to help my fellow modelers but be aware that there can be potentially dangerous situations. If by following the instructions as seen on these web pages and you, 1. cut yourself or, 2. burn yourself or, 3. electrocute yourself or, 4. inhale hazardous fumes or, 5. blow yourself up or, 6. injure yourself during construction, (i.e. hit your thumb with a hammer, cut off a digit) or, 7. any accident related to making anything shown on my pages, I will not be held responsible or be liable for any damages occurred. I also reserve the right to change the content, the design of or delete a web page without notice and without incurring obligations.


Dave Vergun

[88gta350]

It's just another sad sign of our litigous times.

[Anonymous]

Sadly this seems to be a necessary practice - not heard of anyone attempting to sue a website owner after injuring themselves using techniques described on the site, but I suspect it's either happened or will happen. Whatever happened to people taking responsibility for their own actions? Now it seems to be acceptable to get injured doing something that most people would consider crazy and then to sue someone - an insane state of affairs in my opinion. It's getting the same over here too - the "No win no fee" services are moving in and causing everyone's insurance premiums to go up so that companies can afford to pay out for personal injury claims...This is hitting us all in our pockets!

Rant against "Compensation culture" over, feel better now!

[Fergmiester]

Mmmmmm..... I'll have to change my sig. NOT! As far as I'm concerned if I give advise and you follow it and it results in injury, dismemberment or death then guess what! You didn't do your homework! You have to read the instructions!

As the guy plumetting to earth with the parachute strapped to his back said to the guy rocketing skyward past him

"Do you know how to open these things?"

"NO, by the way do you know how to start a BBQ?"

RTFI Guys! (Read The Foolish Instructions)

[philnrunt]

Dave- you are absolutely right, so I need to post the following- Void where prohibited by law- Packed by weight, not by volume, some settling may occur-Warning: filling is hot- Look out behind you-Caution:this side towards enemy-
It's all about CYA.

[Anonymous]

hi