• Viceversa@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Would arborists be liable? Or would they demand you in the contract to take all and any consequences?

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      19 days ago

      You can’t sign away liability a lot of times. Contract law isn’t as simple as “they signed it!”. There are limits to what can be signed away in a contract and liability is a classic

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        19 days ago

        You can’t sign away liability a lot of times

        Yeah, but do arboristic works fall into these “a lot of times”?
        I can’t find anything particular on the internet.

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          19 days ago

          Dropping a tree on a house is covered under gross negligence which you can’t sign away, under contract law. But also, state licensure often limits further what you can sign away.

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      19 days ago

      You can put whatever you want in a contract, but it can’t contradict the law.

      If an arborists is negligent and fucks up, they can still be sued for their fuck up, no matter what some boilerplate contract says.