[SARA-Members] Nova Scotia SAR teams may withdraw service

[Monica Ahlstrom]

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From: Alan Thomas Jr. [mailto:ibasquarepeg at sympatico.ca] 
Sent: October 19, 2009 12:44 PM
To: Alan Thomas Jr.
Subject: Search and rescue groups want insurance protection

 


Search and rescue groups want insurance protection


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The Canadian Press 


Nova Scotia's volunteer search and rescue groups say they may be forced to
withdraw emergency services if they can't get better insurance protection.

The association said in a news release Monday that volunteer searchers need
good liability insurance to protect themselves, and they're asking the
provincial government for assistance.

At a meeting of the Nova Scotia Ground Search and Rescue Association on
Sunday, directors of 24 provincial teams voted to give notice they will
withhold services if their concerns on insurance aren't resolved by the
provincial government in two weeks.

The groups say they're concerned partly because of third-party liability
claims made against volunteers when a Quebec couple became lost and a woman
died in mountains near Golden, B.C.

That case led to a lawsuit before the Supreme Court of British Columbia
against the Golden search and rescue team, RCMP and three named defendants
in May 2009.

C The Canadian Press, 2009

 

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