Injury Liability Lawsuits

You can unintentionally harm someone and still be liable for that harm.

Same problem. The risk of getting sued if someone injures themselves on the bike is too high.

Getting falsely accused of hitting someone, being sued, and seeing a huge insurance rate hike doesn't count as harm?

Small reminder that the law already has a way of deciding liability for damages, and you don't have to directly drop a bridge on someone to get in trouble.

We're talking about liability insurance, not health insurance. The root problem here is tort law, not accident statistics.

I really have no expertise in this area but with the amount of lawsuits that occur these days it feels like as soon as someone was paralyzed or killed accessing this land you would be on the hook for not preventing them from accessing it. I would hope that this isn't the case but it just feels like the way thinks are going.

If they modify something and it ends up hurting someone, they're liable for it.Until the courts can provide adequate compensation to the family of someone was was killed or to a crash victim who received life-changing injuries, I don't think that's going to be a compelling argument in this sort of situation.

Let them sue. They'll lose if they can't prove negligence.

You are probably paying for the ability to sue the manufacturer when it fails and kills someone.

Love it. Want it. In the USA, the manufacturers would probably be sued out of existence when someone got killed or maimed in one, no matter whose fault it was.