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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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  • Wilderness Medicine

    Rattlesnake Bite Tale

    There is an article on the front page of the May 22, 2009 Casper Star Tribune, Wyoming's main newspaper. The gist of the tale is a dog bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake. It's owner sucks “venom” from the wound with his mouth, then...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Immunization Patch for Infectious Diarrhea

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Infectious diarrhea from all causes is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among international travelers, including those who frequent wilderness areas. It would...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Scorpion anti-venom

    There is a study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine on an anti-venom for the bark scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus . Antivenom for the bark scorpion is a single sentence in our WFR curriculum “There is an antivenom available for...
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My Cultural DNA Form

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Being Caribou

On April 8, 2003, husband and wife team Karsten Heuer (wildlife biologist) and Leanne Allison (environmentalist...
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How to use a River Rescue Life Jacket

Learn how to use a kayak river rescue life jacket in this free how to video about kayak river rescues...
Posted to: Paddling
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International Incident Database System: Adding Details to an Incident

Video 2 This is Rick Curtis and this is the second in a series of videos about the International Incident...
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The Freedom Chair gets Air

We previously brought you the incredible video about Josh Duek - the Freedom Chair. Josh continues to...
Posted to: Backcountry Winter Sports
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