Recent content by cedarbluffranch

The law requires me to carry auto insurance, so I do. Regardless, auto insurance is a necessary evil because the loss potential is high. My mortgage company requires me to carry insurance on my home. I carry it since I would lose my home otherwise. When I rented, I didn't purchase rental...

Basically, I'd be putting in a clause in the contract that says my client would idemnify me against any claims brought against me due to the work that I did for the client.

Why won't the courts buy it?

Thanks Ron. I appreciate your attaching the booklet and providing the information that you provided.

To give some more details on exactly why I am not interested in insurance: The particular products I am looking at using my PE stamp on will be used anywhere from 5 to 30 years. (My PE stamp covers the installation of these products, not the products themselves.) From what I understand...

For the particular kind of work that I am looking at doing, the customers are only hiring the engineer because the city requires them to, not because they are looking to the engineer to take on responsibility. The customer has a choice to hire an fully insured (and fully liable) engineering...

So here goes more posting about liability of being a professional engineer... Can I include an idemnification clause in my contract, and if so, will it protect me against lawsuits from the client and general public. For example, I do some engineering work for John Swearingen. I put a clause in...

Gbor, I agree that dorm lofts are low risk items. I've never heard in my college years of anyone getting injured from them and they are very straight forward design. And the designs are simple enough and common that it would be easy to prove whether a design was defective or not. I work as a...

Don, Thanks for your post. That was first post on this thread that actually answered my question and gave me an idea on how to consider this project. I appreciate your sincere posting.

Uh, there's actually a number of universities that don't allow you to have homemade lofts. You can speculate as to why. Engineers might say liability. Others might say to help the local business. Others may try to say to hurt the local lumber industry. I suppose technically requiring a...

Don't give up! What I'm trying to ascertain from the various discussion on liability is to figure out exactly how and what I become liable for in the example of creating engineering drawings of dorm furniture. You can see examples all over the Internet by non-engineers, so either those people...

Actually, I never asked if I did incur liability. The question I asked was what liability do I incur (as in tort liability, contract liability, etc, and specifically how do I incur this liabiilty), how long does it last, and how can I limit it. I understand that a person incurs some liability...

So I did some searching last night. Montana State University provides plans to students. A former student by the name of Kent Molin drew this design for them and it's freely available on the Internet. http://www.montana.edu/reslife/loftPlans.php So if this university had someone draw plans...

UL doesn't publish codes unless someone knows otherwise. And I've never heard of a UL stamp on furniture.

The plan would be the design of a bed. Why would a mechanical engineer not design it? You have fasteners, stringers, spars, and associated hardware. Sure, non-engineers could design it as well. But it seems like a fair project for me to take on. (Some universities actually require a PE stamp...