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  1. cedarbluffranch

    Idemnification clause in contract

    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...
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    Idemnification clause in contract

    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.
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    Idemnification clause in contract

    Why won't the courts buy it?
  4. cedarbluffranch

    Idemnification clause in contract

    Thanks Ron. I appreciate your attaching the booklet and providing the information that you provided.
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    Idemnification clause in contract

    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...
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    Idemnification clause in contract

    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...
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    Idemnification clause in contract

    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...
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    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    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...
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    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    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.
  10. cedarbluffranch

    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    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...
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    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    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...
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    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    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...
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    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    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...
  14. cedarbluffranch

    Dorm loft design

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

    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...
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    Liability of designing dorm lofted beds

    I've been approached by a local university to create loft bed plans that they can provide to new students. I won't be making the beds themselves, just the plans. What liability will I incur by doing this? How long will the liability last? How can I limit the liability?
  17. cedarbluffranch

    Dorm loft design

    I've been approached by a university to design a plan for a lofted bed typically found in college dorms. Are there any structural codes that I can use as reference for the load capability of the fasteners, joints, and wooden members? My design will be more than robust. But I would like to be...
  18. cedarbluffranch

    I want to pursue my Engineering, i really need some advise and help.

    "You're written English is decent, but not perfect." The same can be said about your English. It should be: "Your written English...."
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    Structural analysis of Snowzilla

    Like I said, it's not a guarantee that it won't collapse. The engineering assessment would be to show that a collapse wouldn't cause injury. Shouldn't be too hard. I've never heard of anybody injured by falling snow and I grew up in a ski town in Montana. We built all sorts of snow forts, snow...
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    Patran Student edition

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