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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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    Research Conference

    Blog #2 I am still getting used to the idea of blogging. A few times a day I think "I should write something on that blog thing" and then it somehow gets lost. Since this is a blog on research, I am happy to report that any lack of blogging...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Picaridin-Based Insect Repellent

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog There is a plethora of insect repellents on the market. Many of the newer repellents are intended to replace DEET (N,N diethyl-m-toluamide), which is an excellent...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Lightning Precautions

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog Spring, summer (peak season), and autumn are the seasons during which we witness most thunderstorms, and during which people and animals are struck by lightning. The...
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Legal Issues: The Elusive Reasonable Person - Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen-Stamp

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen...
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Legal Issues: Releases Revisited - Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen-Stamp

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen...
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Incident Response & Management: Serious Incident (Accident) Review Process - Jed Wiliamson

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Jed Wiliamson from the Wilderness...
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Incident Response and Management: NOLS Field Instructor Seniority Part One - Tod Schimelpfenig et al

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Tod Schimelpfenig et al from the...
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Incident Response and Management: Reporting the Incident - Rick Braschler

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Rick Braschler from the Wilderness...
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