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Having organised / been involved with a magor street festival for over 16 years we now have a no win no fee claim.
Apparently a Morris dancer knocked over a member of the public when dancing causing an injury.The Claimant had entered their performance area. And was surprised when he went backwards (he was dancing) !!!!!!
Is the issue the Dancers PL insurance or ours as organisers.
Regards,Paul
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Paul, assuming you have PLI you should refer the claim to the insurance company. Who knows whether it is be a spurious or genuine claim? The insurance company will deal with it as they see fit.
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It is generally safer not to post receipt of any claim on such a public Forum as this, lest 'sensitive' detail be tease out in any ensuing discussion - which may further complicate matters!
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I'm with Ron on this - you should refrain from any public "chat" about what legal preceedings.
And you do not need to worry about whose insurers should respond/deal with the claim. If a letter (from a solicitor?) has been sent to you then it must be passed on to your insurers immediately. May be best to route it through your insurance brokers.
Insurers will then decide who should respond.... it may be that both parties i.e. yourselves as organisers and the performers have a degree of liability.
But I must heed my own advice and stop now.
Phil
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Another Morris dancing related injury - oh, when will we learn.
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Martin states another. However in 20+years we have had none until now, please advise any cases / case law?
As Ron advises it is in the hands of our insurer, but is there is any advice in controlling Morris?
Regards,Paul
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The untrammelled joyfulness of Morris Dancing can never be controlled. We are all slaves to its natural force.
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I have not checked the site for weeks, so this is quite a coincidence-I was asked only this week if Morris dancers needed to undertake Risk assessments.
Must be something in the air,
Nic
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These Morris dancers seem to be getting everywhere. Had a query only last week regarding the hiring of a school hall for practices by a Morris group. As a small part of the hall floor at one side had become uneven through water ingress, could the hiring continue? My response was yes of course - simply mark the affected area with several chairs and also make sure the group leaders know to keep the dancers away from it.
Also I confess to having occasionally done a bit of Morris dancing in the past. One dance involved rapper swords consisting of big flexible metal bands or blades with swivel handles. It was quite complicated with dancers weaving into different formations while holding the swords and finally ending with the swords in a tight star formation which could be raised aloft. Can't remember any risk assessment for the dance - not surprising as it was some years before 'risk assessment' arrived as an established term and concept. The edges of the metal weren't too sharp, which might help to explain why nobody ever got decapitated or suffered other amputations during the sword weaving formations. Also, we didn't wear little bells so had no problem with excess noise.
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