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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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  • Outdoor Education General

    Running 'Mega' Programs - Part 2

    I just got finished with running the fall wilderness orientation program at Princeton University. This was our largest program in our thirty-four year history with 644 freshmen, 165 leaders, 46 Support Team members and 12 Command Center staff. We ran...
  • Outdoor Education General

    Running 'Mega' Programs - Part 1

    I just got finished with running the fall wilderness orientation program at Princeton University. This was our largest program in our thirty-four year history with 644 freshmen, 165 leaders, 46 Support Team members and 12 Command Center staff. We ran...
  • Wilderness Medicine

    Lightning in the Mountains

    I spent last week in the Wind Rivers with my daughter and two of my sons. One afternoon at 10,000’ we had a tremendous thunderstorm, likely fueled by monsoon moisture drifting north from the remnants of hurricane Dean. Thor’s bolts and simultaneous flash...
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When Lightning Strikes

This short video from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration covers the basics of...
Posted to: Nature & Environment
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What to do if you fall through the ice

An educational video from the Discovery Channel (Canada) that teaches you what to do if you fall through...
Posted to: Backcountry Winter Sports
by 258

What LOW Avalanche danger looks like

Doug Chabot, director of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, describes the stable snow conditions...
Posted to: Backcountry Winter Sports
by 190

What it takes to make a white water river

Improvements made to a very popular recreational and competition course for whitewater paddling on the...
Posted to: Paddling
by 537

Water, Water Everywhere but is it Safe to Drink? by Nancy Pietroski

by Nancy Pietroski Published in the Summer 2008 Issue of Wilderness Medicine Magazine published by the...
Posted to: First Aid & Emergency Care
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