Legal Issues When Volunteers Are Injured: Is Your Nonprofit at Risk?
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Course description
Legal Issues When Volunteers Are Injured: Is Your Nonprofit at Risk?
What do you do if your volunteer or employee gets injured? Be prepared with a comprehensive risk management plan. Volunteers are the lifeblood of your nonprofit and essential to the mission. Although many nonprofits believe that they are still shielded from civil liability as to their volunteers, that landscape has changed and is continuing to evolve in our society. A significant claim from an injured volunteer can devastate a small nonprofit in financial and reputational impact. But forewarned is forearmed. From this topic you will obtain a better understanding as to how the law is evolving in its view of who is a “volunteer” and who is an “employee”, why that might impact your mission, the types of injuries for which volunteers have and are making claims against the nonprofit, and risk management tips to protect your volunteers and to continue to fulfill your mission.
Learning Objectives
Who should attend?
Training content
- The Changing Face of Nonprofits
- Charitable Immunity
- Volunteer Protections Act
- Tracking Volunteer Injuries Through the DLICorrecting Classifying Volunteers
- What Are the Risks of Misclassifying a Volunteer?–Wages Liability–Workers' Comp–Civil Liability
- Impact of the New DOL Rules on Volunteers
- Tests for Distinguishing Between Employee and VolunteerIdentifying the Risks
- What Are the Basic Legal Theories of Civil Liability?
- How Are These Applied to Mission Related Activities?–Premises Liability–Driving and Transportation–Personal Injury While Performing the Activity–Professional Liability for Rendering AidInjuries Resulting From Violence
- Liability for Risks Posed by Co-Workers/Co-Volunteers
- Liability for Risks Posed by Clientele
- Liability for Risks Posed by Outside/Third PartiesControlling the Risks
- Selection
- Training
- Supervision
- Documentation
- Protection
- Risk Transfer
- The Corporate Shield
Costs
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