What I was hearing was more like if someone gets pissed at your policies, or screws up on bookeeping or you miss some a deadline for delivering something that is core to your mission, or someone get hurts on a machine and thinks it is because the safety training policy wasn't strict enough that the officers and directors can end up getting sued. Not as individuals a la piecing of the vail, but as officers and directors, even elected or hired individuals not on the corp paperwork. But I know a lot of MBAs and Lawyers, maybe they're paranoid but they seem pretty adamant... <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Leigh Honeywell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leigh@hypatia.ca">leigh@hypatia.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10-05-25 05:15 PM, Carlyn Maw wrote:<br>
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I've been told by a number of people that we should have D&O insurance.<br>
Anyone have any thoughts on that?<br>
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I was told by a (Canadian, but still seems relevant) lawyer that the main thing D&O covers that a good common general liability policy doesn't is slander/libel. So if you're going to keep a public blog with controversial content, that would be a good reason to get D&O.<br>
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