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I am writing to let you know about two education events that will be held in advance of the American Astronomical Society's upcoming conference in Honolulu, HI...
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As an officer in an astronomy club (president, VP, treasurer) what is the extent of our liability to be sued at a public viewing sponsored by the club? Say the...
Lawyers take a shotgun approach and sue everyone. While they may not win anything, it will cost you to defend yourself. The AL insurance, costing $320 per...
For our club, we have a $1 million rider for public events, and we also pay insurance for indemnification of our board of directors and officers. We are...
Sue, The St. Louis organization has a similar policy but not through the AL. Our liability coverage is for $2 million per occurance ( I think this is correct)...
Hello, Everyone... This is Jackie Beucher, Exec. Sec. of the Astronomical League. We do offer a discounted liability insurance program to our members. If...
Heh, we did a complete rewrite. Started from scratch and re-organized the whole thing. We had our lawyers as the primary writers, with a couple of long-time ...
Jackie, Thank you for your helpful answer. I would like to clarify one thing: all clubs need liability insurance. The original message also asked about Board...
Steve, without liability insurance, whose assets are at risk in the case of an injury at a sponsored event? What happens if the club is unincorporated? Chris...
Chris, This question is too specific. Only a lawyer could give you a good answer. By the way, most clubs only have a checking account. Most do not have much in...
Chris & Steve, Those are 2 good points that I forgot to include. Our club has a checking account, but we are not incorporated. We only got a tax number so we...
Sue, That's a good point about it costing $$ just to defend one's self against unjnutified suits. You are saying that being unincorporated leaves individuals...
Perhaps we should have public star party attendees sign a liability waiver before we allow them near the equipment. Chris ... From: <stephenlieber@...> ...
club officers are not liable holds only for incorporated clubs This was the reason we first decided to incorporate. Sue Rose AOS ... From: John C Date:...
It sounds like a good idea but we were told by an attorney that people cannot sign away their rights. Anyone with an attorney in their club like to check on...
I've got good news and bad news. Liability insurance for an astronomy club that wishes to do public events is not optional. If you wish to do these kinds of...
Jackie is it necessary to be a corporation in order to purchase this coverage? We are a corporation, but are thinking about making it dormant to escape the...
No, it sure isn't. But I'd think twice and three times about taking away your corporate non-profit status. What bureaucracy? I'm curious... Jackie Beucher ...
Bureaucracy: officers, board, board meetings, business meetings, reports. I'd like to see individuals taking a more active role and not relying on board member...
Here is another listing of astronomy software, all available on the web. http://www.midnightkite.com/software.html the message at the bottom states that there...
This is just my $0.02, but it seems to me that the people who let board members do all the work in the past will let the people "who used to be board members"...
As many of you know the Dawn mission is getting ready to launch to head to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres (dawn.jpl.nasa.gov). Fortunately, Vesta is a fairly...
It's hard to manage a group without some of that, unfortunately. Our club tries and suceeds most of the time, to delegate smaller pieces of the workload to...
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