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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

    Evolving Snake Venom

    Have you heard the story of evolving snake venom? Apparently snake venom in general is becoming more potent and, gasp, snakes have been interbreeding and sharing potent neurotoxins. Alas, while this is good stuff for horror movies, it’s not yet...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Bacterial Diarrhea

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Foodborne bacterial diarrhea is a common problem of backpackers, kayakers, divers - of anyone who ventures into the outdoors and is therefore associated with ingestion...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Wilderness First Aid Scope of Practice Update

    Folks This is an update on the wilderness first aid scope of practice process and documents. Our group of colleagues have been working steadily on these documents.We have circulated several drafts of the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Scope of Practice document...
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River Reading & River Safety for Whitewater Canoeing: Group Size & Organization

Learn basic safety tips for groups whitewater canoeing in this free online instructional video series...
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River Reading & River Safety for Whitewater Canoeing: Obstacles to Avoid

Learn what obstacles to avoid when whitewater canoeing in this free online instructional video series...
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River Reading & River Safety for Whitewater Canoeing: River Features, Part 1

Learn basic river features for whitewater canoeing in this free online instructional video series on...
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River Reading & River Safety for Whitewater Canoeing: River Features, Part 2

Learn basic river features for whitewater canoeing in this free online instructional video series on...
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River Reading & River Safety for Whitewater Canoeing: Rolling

Learn basic rolling techniques for whitewater canoeing in this free online instructional video series...
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