Nathan and all,
I was looking at your stove safety and hazard work. Good job but I do not see
the #1 hazard in my opinion, that is predatory trial lawyers. This is more a
hazard for stove builders than stove users.
Has anyone tried to get liability insurance for their designs?
I had a discussion with a SCORE counselor who is an insurance underwriter and
he ask what could go wrong with a safe stove. I said that possibly using the
stove in a wrong way like overfiring (this is a problem for space heating
stoves that hold a lot of wood but maybe not for cooking stoves), lighting a
stove the wrong way, such as bottom lighting a top lit stove, using a cup of
gasoline to start the fire, loading the stove with heart pine, and using an
outside stove in an enclosed space.
Has anyone considered "wrong use" as a stove hazard? Does anyone have more
examples of wrong use?
I ask a intellectual property rights lawyer if I would be protected with an
LLC, and he said that an LLC will not protect the inventor.
Does anyone have an insurance company that will underweight a safe wood fired
stove?
This may only apply for stoves sold in the USA, the rest of the world has a
more sane justice system for liability.
Crispin told me once that he would not consider selling stoves in the USA but
that is where I am and that is where the money is.
I believe there is a market for the type of stoves we build, for the developing
regions, in the Western more affluent areas, to use for outdoor cooking and
entertainment and for emergency off grid situations.
Lanny
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