Lawsuit-Proofing Your City with Scott Grossberg

Yes, you read the title correctly. After 16 episodes, I'm putting Lawsuit-Proofing Your City on hiatus for a short while. You can visit scottgrossberglaw.com if you'd like to consider some live events.

Obviously, we prize the safety and security of our children, elders, and dependent adults. Indeed, there are overiding public policies addressing the safety and well-being of children, elders and dependent adults. While we don't want to turn everyone into investigators, we do want those who we deem to be mandated reporters to be our eyes and ears. This means that mandated reporters, if they have reasonable suspicion, become the voice for children, elders, and dependent adults who might be being abused or neglected.

Being sued is bad enough. When an elected official, however, chooses to use pending or resolved litigation as a political tool . . . or worse, use it to target an employee or weaponize it for a private agenda, there can be serious consequences. There’s are simple solutions to all this . . . and I’m going to share those with you.

Welcome to the confusing world of additional insured status. This podcast episode is designed to give you some potential ammunition for handling insurance situations that might otherwise prove unmanageable. Join us as we explorea dditional insured status, the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify.

In a world that loves to point blame at public agencies, it’s no wonder that, anytime someone is hurt on public property, they accuse the agency of maintaining a dangerous condition. However, not every incident actually involves a dangerous condition. In this episode we’re going to explore what is and isn’t an actual dangerous condition of public property. That way you’ll know what standards to apply and when we might be able to apply a Design Immunity defense. You’ll get an idea of what you might want to protect your agency against.