Re: OT sorta---Ain't it just amazing we're all st

Posted by Ken Macfarlane on July 08, 2005 at 09:22:10 from (142.166.9.50):

In Reply to: Re: OT sorta---Ain't it just amazing we're all st posted by Bill WI on July 08, 2005 at 08:45:18:

I went to school as a mechanical engineer, and we are open to all kinds a law suits.

-lowest common denominator, ie you have to design for the dumbest possible person to use machinery now, you can't use the reasonable person type design approach.

-engineers are liable (here at least) to forever plus 5 years or something like that. You are liable until the failure is discovery plus 5 years.

-Liability is ruining so many things it is incredible. It surpresses many small businesses, they can't get insurance to do any thing so you have to risk it all to ahead.

Finally some limits have been applied in some areas, locally a man ran into a cow out on the road and sued the farmer. The court found the farmer made reasonable efforts to contain the cow so the man wasn't entitled to sue. It was treated like a deer or moose on the road.

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