I started diving off of starting blocks when I was eight years old. I am now 51, and train at the Y, almost always alone, as there is no Masters program in the county where I live, or in any of the immediately adjacent counties. (There are several age group programs.) I want to work on my starts, but none of the Y's where I swim will let me use the blocks - saying that a national Y policy prohibits anyone from using the blocks unless a team/club coach is on the deck.
I have never heard of anyone suing a YMCA because of an accident on a starting block.
Yes, perhaps a coach would be valuable to me in this regard, but I'm not looking for a coach - I need and want a cooperative facility. The age groups' program schedules are not conducive to my schedule, and besides, the age group coaches already have enough on their hands during those times with lanes full of kids working their programs. I also am not excited about having to dodge those kids to do the work I need to do.
Anyone find a way to conquer this litigation-fear-induced insanity yet? Thank you.
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Originally posted by Tom Ellison
Aquageek...you are on a roll here my friend.....and I think you are hitting the nail directly on the head......
Each of us pay for these law suits in the form of increased prices/rates. Our system is way out of whack. Let me visit another area to prove I am unbiased regarding this issue. I was right out of college and working (temporary) on a paving crew in the D.C. area in Nov. 1977. I was backed over and squashed under a loaded (actually over weight) dump truck in excess of 28 tons. The sub-contractor was negligent in four areas.
1. No back up warning bells on his truck.
2. No inspection sticker.
3. Over weight by many tons.
4. No road marshal or orders to back into the paving machine.
I was in my area of work, doing my job and without warning this dump truck backed over my midsection and squashed me in the street. The Workman Compensation laws in the State of Virginia do not allow law suits against employers for negligence. Any settlement is based upon the workers pay scale. I received $9800.00 plus life long medical benefits related to my accident. For the record, I was SQUASHED! I had my intestines blown through my rectum into my Levis, my right femoral head squashed out of my right side, the total loss of my right buttocks, colostomy for two years, 5 life or death operations in the first three days after my accident, 22 operations to date, three rectum reconstruction surgeries, crushed pelvis and sacrum, 40 plus pints of blood the first three days, Hepatitis C from the blood transfusions, and horrific pain and suffering for years after this accident. Yet, I was NOT ALLOWED TO BRING SUIT AGAINST MY EMPLOYER FOR OBVIOUS NEGLIGENCE. The company was fined for all four violations by the government and those violations stuck even after appeal.
My point? If anyone should embrace negligent law suits….it is ME! Yet, I think the system is way out of whack….and I mean OUT OF WHACK….
Yeah, but this lady spilled HOT coffee on herself!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Maybe if you had run yourself over with that truck.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Originally posted by Tom Ellison
Aquageek...you are on a roll here my friend.....and I think you are hitting the nail directly on the head......
Each of us pay for these law suits in the form of increased prices/rates. Our system is way out of whack. Let me visit another area to prove I am unbiased regarding this issue. I was right out of college and working (temporary) on a paving crew in the D.C. area in Nov. 1977. I was backed over and squashed under a loaded (actually over weight) dump truck in excess of 28 tons. The sub-contractor was negligent in four areas.
1. No back up warning bells on his truck.
2. No inspection sticker.
3. Over weight by many tons.
4. No road marshal or orders to back into the paving machine.
I was in my area of work, doing my job and without warning this dump truck backed over my midsection and squashed me in the street. The Workman Compensation laws in the State of Virginia do not allow law suits against employers for negligence. Any settlement is based upon the workers pay scale. I received $9800.00 plus life long medical benefits related to my accident. For the record, I was SQUASHED! I had my intestines blown through my rectum into my Levis, my right femoral head squashed out of my right side, the total loss of my right buttocks, colostomy for two years, 5 life or death operations in the first three days after my accident, 22 operations to date, three rectum reconstruction surgeries, crushed pelvis and sacrum, 40 plus pints of blood the first three days, Hepatitis C from the blood transfusions, and horrific pain and suffering for years after this accident. Yet, I was NOT ALLOWED TO BRING SUIT AGAINST MY EMPLOYER FOR OBVIOUS NEGLIGENCE. The company was fined for all four violations by the government and those violations stuck even after appeal.
My point? If anyone should embrace negligent law suits….it is ME! Yet, I think the system is way out of whack….and I mean OUT OF WHACK….
Yeah, but this lady spilled HOT coffee on herself!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Maybe if you had run yourself over with that truck.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
