At 07:33 PM 2/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Pete Smith <n4zr@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>At 09:39 AM 2/11/96 -0800, W7NI wrote:
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>>>The tax preparation program comparison falls down a little also because I
>>>can't see how an innocent bystander can get maimed or killed because you
>>>make a mistake in your taxes.
>>>
>>On the other hand, the IRS can send you to jail. I think people like Intuit
>>(Turbotax) are more worried about the consumer suing them directly than
>>about 3d parties.
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>>FWIW, for $26/yr I bumped the liability limit on my homeowner's insurance to
>>$1 million. I had initially explored the idea of a wraparound overall
>>liability policy, but concluded that the cost of the latter option was too
>>high relative to where my risk lay (a couple of hundred dollars a year).
>>The homeowner insurance angle may be a useful low-cost option for some
others.
>>73, Pete Smith N4ZR
>>n4zr@ix.netcom.com
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>Pete:
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>I believe that the usual Homeowners policy contains an exclusion regarding
>business or professional activities. Your agent will be able to confirm
this.
>It may be possible to extend the coverage of that HO policy to cover such
>activities, and it will be probably pretty reasonable charge, but this will
>require a specific endorsement. Just raising the limits won't do the trick.
>
>Ted K1BV
>Insurance CPCU as well as editor of DX Awards Directory.
>
Sorry, Ted, I should've been clearer -- I wasn't talking about this as
protection for the writer of tower software, but for the owner of tower...
thereby hopefully reducing motivation to sue writer of software.
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@ix.netcom.com
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