Writings
Legal Issues for Your Camp
By Charles R. Gregg
1. Camps and risks
2. A Risk Management Plan (analyze, manage, inform)
3. The two prongs of a Risk Management Plan
- a. Control of injury or other losses to the participant (elements)
- b. Protecting your program
4. Elements of a self-protection plan
- a. A quality program
- b. Choice of entity/protecting personal assets
- c. Wise use of professionals
- d. Understanding applicable standards
- e. Understanding laws, ordinances and regulations
- f. Written agreements, including indemnities and releases
5. Written agreements
- a. Insurance
- b. With vendors of services
- c. With staff
- d. With campers
- e. With user groups
- f. With individual visitors
6. Avoidance or allocation of legal liability
- a. In employment contracts
- b. In camper agreements
- c. In user contracts
- d. Visitors, etc.
7. Pertinent areas of the law
- a. Criminal and civil
- b. Contract
- c. Negligence
- d. Other
8. The duty of care owed
- a. Reasonable person? In loco parentis? Other?
- b. Reduction and enlargement of the duty: factors
9. Breach of the Duty. Negligence
- a. Elements of negligence (duty, breach, injury, cause)
- b. Defenses
- i. Inherent risk caused to loss
- ii. Express assumption of risk
- iii. Secondary assumption of risk
- iv. Releases
10. Camper Agreement
- a. Elements generally
- i. Activities and risks
- ii. Assumption of risks
- iii. Release
- iv. Indemnity
- v. Other (ADR, venue, law, etc.)
- b. Degrees of complexity and protection
- c. Protection as an ethical issue? Marketing issue? Cultural issue?
11. Protection from claims of Camp families (minors and adults)
- a. The reality
- b. The possibility
10. Close
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