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<DIV><FONT size=4>Nathan and all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I was looking at your stove safety and hazard work. Good job
but I do not see the #1 hazard in my opinion, that is <STRONG><U>predatory trial
lawyers</U></STRONG>. This is more a hazard for stove builders than stove
users.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Has anyone tried to get liability insurance for their
designs?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I had a discussion with a SCORE counselor who is an insurance
underwriter and he ask what could go wrong with a safe stove. I said that
possibly using the stove in a wrong way like overfiring (this is a problem for
space heating stoves that hold a lot of wood but maybe not for cooking
stoves), lighting a stove the wrong way, such as bottom lighting a top lit
stove, using a cup of gasoline to start the fire, loading the stove with heart
pine, and using an outside stove in an enclosed space.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Has anyone considered "wrong use" as a stove hazard? Does
anyone have more examples of wrong use?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I ask a intellectual property rights lawyer if I would
be protected with an LLC, and he said that an LLC will not protect the
inventor.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Does anyone have an insurance company that will underweight a
safe wood fired stove?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>This may only apply for stoves sold in the USA, the rest of
the world has a more sane justice system for liability.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Crispin told me once that he would not consider selling stoves
in the USA but that is where I am and that is where the money is.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I believe there is a market for the type of stoves we build,
for the developing regions, in the Western more affluent areas, to use
for outdoor cooking and entertainment and for emergency off grid
situations. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Lanny</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>