[at-l] Denial of Health Coverage for "Risky" Sports

[athiker@plantnet.com (Peter H. Fornof)]

If you are paid in a regular job to perform hazardous activities, you should
be covered in most cases by Worker's Compensation, provided by your
employer. Yes, the rates are higher for hazardous work, but the employer
pays.

> Might I pose the question ....What happens to those of us who deal in
"high
> risk" activities as jobs...the outdoor programers, outdoor trip
> people...people who traditionally do what they love, provide a service for
> the public and are generally lower paid....do we get to pay MORE than we
> already are?.....just askin'
> vera
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Orange Bug" <orangebug74@yahoo.com>
> To: "Steve Landis" <landis@epix.net>; "AT-L" <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Denial of Health Coverage for "Risky" Sports
>
>
> > Volumes of truth are in that little observation.
> >
> > Just as a comment to the original note, the "insurer" can truthfully
> > say that their limitations do not prevent employment. The limitations
> > only prevent coverage of injuries sustained as a result of "risky"
> > behaviors. This is one more indication that the insurance industries
> > anti-trust exemptions have destroyed thier industry. We now only have
> > underwriters, totally unprepared to deal with risk.
> >
> > The topic is only barely trail related.
> >
> > Bill...
> >
> > --- Steve Landis <landis@epix.net> wrote:
> > > Leslie Booher wrote:
> > ...
> > > > because I can't make any sense of any of it, and it LONG.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid that's by design.
> > >
> >
> >
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