True, but there have been settlements with kitplane manufacturers, but =
not the kitplane builders themselves.

Having a fat insurance policy is bait for the injury attorneys that take =
out full-page ads in the backs of phone books.  Those bastards are the =
ones that have made flying so expensive.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave King [mailto:kingdws@SHAW.CA]
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Airplane cruise control
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> At 11:29 AM 13/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Can't help with the tech stuff but I do have one piece of advice.
> >
> >Make sure your liability insurance coverage is appropriate.=20
> If you are named
> >in a lawsuit, even a frivolous lawsuit, you want to have the=20
> backing of your
> >insurance carrier to cover the legal expenses.
> >
> >Paul
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> There has never been a successful lawsuit involving experimental
> aircraft  even in
> the US. That doesn't mean you couldn't experience  some legal=20
> fee's. And
> generally they tend to do a sue/serve first and sort them out=20
> later routine.
> In other words you could get named but as soon as they find=20
> out your pockets
> are just deep enough to hold small change they stop.
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> Plus he's in NZ which like us (Canucks) use a different=20
> standard for civil
> suits
> than the US. You have to prove actual damages not just pain=20
> and suffering.
> Here if you sue and loose you get to pay everyone's legal=20
> fee's as well so
> you have to be right. To do anything to him he'd have to be=20
> sued in NZ anyway.
> assuming that he intended to make this a commercial product=20
> not just a one off
> which he hasn't said yet.
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> Lawyers are like nukes. As long as you don't use them=20
> everything is fine,
> as soon
> as you do everything gets F'd up ;-]
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> Dave
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