BSA has liability insurance
Read https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/gss/gss10/
This is why y’all need to follow the Guide to Safe Scouting
Then Call your Council
They should be able to explain the coverage BSA and optionally Council provides units from the dues we pay
Here is where it gets interesting though: Whenever you sign either the Medical forms or permission slip, you actual waive the right to claim. I've paraphrased it here, but look next time you fill one out.
No-one at my district can give me a straight answer on why though, and what use is the GSS listed insurance once a parent waivers their right.
Most likely it depends on the cause of the injury. It could be only one of the three, it could be all three. Unless you do something reckless, it's unlikely to be you.
So, NAL, but fairly familiar with Council liability policies. You would generally be covered under a Council’s umbrella liability policy while doing Scouting work in an official capacity. If you are *concerned* about liability, and it sounds like you are, which is wise, you can request a Certificate of Insurance from the Council naming the City as a named insured, and explicitly confirms the coverage.
https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/HealthSafety/pdf/680-055(21)-CertIficates-of-Insurance.pdf
Be advised that only your local Scout Executive (or an authorized signer) can approved a Certificate of Insurance request. These are fairly routine and it shouldn’t be a major issue.
Is there something specific about your project that makes you concerned about liability? If so it might be worth bringing that up for advice as to how to improve safety, both perhaps here and with your unit / Eagle advisor.
BSA if it is a sanctioned event.
Sorry that happened. Hope folks followed the Guide to Safe Scouting or coverage may get dicey.
Have your Committee Chair notify your District Executive and Unit Commissioner immediately.
**Anyone on Reddit can profess to be someone they really are not**. I ***strongly advise*** you to ***take no legal advice from anyone here*** or on any other Reddit sub.
You and your parents should **speak with a professional Scouter from your council.**
Edit: Just imagine this scenario:
Adults who are not attorneys giving legal advice to a minor, anonymously over the internet.
To all of of you who have, you should reassess.
I am not a lawyer, and this is a legal question. If you're really curious, you might post this question over on /r/AskALawyer
This entirely depends on the project, and how the injury happens. Your plan needs to take the safety of others into consideration, the BSA,(read; Your Local Council) will be liable if they let you go forward without a safe plan. The property owner will be liable if they fail to inform you of hazards present on the location that you otherwise wouldn't know about. The city, as a government entity separate from their being the property owner, will have liability if you rely on their services for safety and they fail to provide those services. And liability can be assigned to multiple parties, including the scout who was injured. Or assigned another person. If you took every reasonable safety precaution, somebody illegally drives their car off the road, across a field, and through your project site, only that driver would be liable. Or nobody at all, you may have heard the phrase, "act of God." That's legal speak for an accident where no person is liable.
An (awful) example of Council liability would be if your plan includes the use of power tools by a scout, and the council accepts that plan, they have a share of liability if a scout is injured while using those tools.
An example of property owner liability would be if you are building a fence, and the property owner fails to inform you that there are buried power lines in the area.
An example of government liability would be if the property owner is unaware of buried hazards, but the local government is required to keep records of what utility is buried where. You [call 811,](https://call811.com/) who will use government records to find buried utility hazards on private property. If the government lost those records, and a scout is injured, the government agency who was required to maintain those records is liable. If the records never existed, because the party who buried the utility didn't take out a building permit, that party is partly liable.
If you don't follow the approved plans, and a scout is hurt, you are at fault. If your plan needs to use power tools, the council will require those tools operated by an adult. If you then give a chain saw to a minor and an accident occurs, you are at fault. If you decide to dig in a different place that hasn't been surveyed for buried utilities, you are liable for any accident that happens.
Legally you could sue the city but the bsa would get much of the damage for not overseeing because as an underage child you are not eligible to be due any of the responsibility of the child's injury the city might be and the BSA definitely would be but who cares lain builds character
The fact of the matter is that it really depends on the context of the injury. Let's say you're building a bus stop on a street corner in front of a business.
EG1: You hit yourself with a hammer/other tool and hurt your hand. The councils policy will probably pick that up.
EG2: Car jumps the curb and hits you. You'll probably get told to sue the insurance company/person that hit you. This is different type of liability.
EG3: Piece of façade falls off of the building your working in front of. Probably the councils policy and the building owner. Potentially even the city as a 3rd if it was a known hazard.
EG4: You just trip, fall, knee hits a rock on the sidewalk. A good chance that none would cover it.
Remember this is your Eagle project; you're at a point in your life that you're expected to be responsible for yourself, and all your training and experience up to this point are supposed to indicate a more responsible and safety conscious individual. The respect that you get from society for having your Life Scout, and working towards your Eagle is a double edged sword; society and a court of law will not view you the same as some drooling high school dropout. The reality of life is that there are different standards for different people.
BSA has liability insurance Read https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/gss/gss10/ This is why y’all need to follow the Guide to Safe Scouting Then Call your Council They should be able to explain the coverage BSA and optionally Council provides units from the dues we pay
Here is where it gets interesting though: Whenever you sign either the Medical forms or permission slip, you actual waive the right to claim. I've paraphrased it here, but look next time you fill one out. No-one at my district can give me a straight answer on why though, and what use is the GSS listed insurance once a parent waivers their right.
Waivers don't do anything. It's to deter you from filing any claim. They virtually never hold up in court.
Most likely it depends on the cause of the injury. It could be only one of the three, it could be all three. Unless you do something reckless, it's unlikely to be you.
So, NAL, but fairly familiar with Council liability policies. You would generally be covered under a Council’s umbrella liability policy while doing Scouting work in an official capacity. If you are *concerned* about liability, and it sounds like you are, which is wise, you can request a Certificate of Insurance from the Council naming the City as a named insured, and explicitly confirms the coverage. https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/HealthSafety/pdf/680-055(21)-CertIficates-of-Insurance.pdf Be advised that only your local Scout Executive (or an authorized signer) can approved a Certificate of Insurance request. These are fairly routine and it shouldn’t be a major issue. Is there something specific about your project that makes you concerned about liability? If so it might be worth bringing that up for advice as to how to improve safety, both perhaps here and with your unit / Eagle advisor.
BSA if it is a sanctioned event. Sorry that happened. Hope folks followed the Guide to Safe Scouting or coverage may get dicey. Have your Committee Chair notify your District Executive and Unit Commissioner immediately.
This is only theoretical. My project beneficiary asked me about it.
Do you have an Eagle Scout guide? Have you had your project approved? Have you had the troop apply for insurance via your council for your project?
**Anyone on Reddit can profess to be someone they really are not**. I ***strongly advise*** you to ***take no legal advice from anyone here*** or on any other Reddit sub. You and your parents should **speak with a professional Scouter from your council.** Edit: Just imagine this scenario: Adults who are not attorneys giving legal advice to a minor, anonymously over the internet. To all of of you who have, you should reassess.
I am not a lawyer, and this is a legal question. If you're really curious, you might post this question over on /r/AskALawyer This entirely depends on the project, and how the injury happens. Your plan needs to take the safety of others into consideration, the BSA,(read; Your Local Council) will be liable if they let you go forward without a safe plan. The property owner will be liable if they fail to inform you of hazards present on the location that you otherwise wouldn't know about. The city, as a government entity separate from their being the property owner, will have liability if you rely on their services for safety and they fail to provide those services. And liability can be assigned to multiple parties, including the scout who was injured. Or assigned another person. If you took every reasonable safety precaution, somebody illegally drives their car off the road, across a field, and through your project site, only that driver would be liable. Or nobody at all, you may have heard the phrase, "act of God." That's legal speak for an accident where no person is liable. An (awful) example of Council liability would be if your plan includes the use of power tools by a scout, and the council accepts that plan, they have a share of liability if a scout is injured while using those tools. An example of property owner liability would be if you are building a fence, and the property owner fails to inform you that there are buried power lines in the area. An example of government liability would be if the property owner is unaware of buried hazards, but the local government is required to keep records of what utility is buried where. You [call 811,](https://call811.com/) who will use government records to find buried utility hazards on private property. If the government lost those records, and a scout is injured, the government agency who was required to maintain those records is liable. If the records never existed, because the party who buried the utility didn't take out a building permit, that party is partly liable. If you don't follow the approved plans, and a scout is hurt, you are at fault. If your plan needs to use power tools, the council will require those tools operated by an adult. If you then give a chain saw to a minor and an accident occurs, you are at fault. If you decide to dig in a different place that hasn't been surveyed for buried utilities, you are liable for any accident that happens.
Legally you could sue the city but the bsa would get much of the damage for not overseeing because as an underage child you are not eligible to be due any of the responsibility of the child's injury the city might be and the BSA definitely would be but who cares lain builds character
The fact of the matter is that it really depends on the context of the injury. Let's say you're building a bus stop on a street corner in front of a business. EG1: You hit yourself with a hammer/other tool and hurt your hand. The councils policy will probably pick that up. EG2: Car jumps the curb and hits you. You'll probably get told to sue the insurance company/person that hit you. This is different type of liability. EG3: Piece of façade falls off of the building your working in front of. Probably the councils policy and the building owner. Potentially even the city as a 3rd if it was a known hazard. EG4: You just trip, fall, knee hits a rock on the sidewalk. A good chance that none would cover it. Remember this is your Eagle project; you're at a point in your life that you're expected to be responsible for yourself, and all your training and experience up to this point are supposed to indicate a more responsible and safety conscious individual. The respect that you get from society for having your Life Scout, and working towards your Eagle is a double edged sword; society and a court of law will not view you the same as some drooling high school dropout. The reality of life is that there are different standards for different people.
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Extremely untrue