If you trust the social workers sure, otherwise your kid will not be able to attend events that are further away.
Sure. They can’t wiggle away from gross negligence with this paper, the car’s Haftpflicht will likely also have to pay in case of driver misconduct. You’re not giving away much. But your child will be very unhappy otherwise.
What did you censor under that lower blue bar? The name of the institution?
In Case of an accident you get paid by your own health insurances or by the liability insurances of the one WHO hast caused the accident.
Basically the thing is: They need a special permission for things that don’t occure every day – such as doing field trips and drive there by car. The car is insured, the social worker has a driver’s licence, all is fine. They need this waiver so that if an accident would happen, you have already accepted that the kid can be transported with the car by the social worker. Otherwise they would risk to being sued by you on the basis of “you did not ask beforehand whether I accept that the child would be in someone else’s car and being at risk of an accident” which would be possible no matter who is actually at fault for the accident.
Your child is insured against accidents through the GUV during any school event or during participation in the social group. If a school accident occurs, it is not the school social worker or the school that is liable anyway, but the legal carrier. In the event of damage, this pays significantly more and more extensively than any private insurance. This is Germany.
Yes
…and for what it’s worth: a close relative of mine, as a school girl, was driven around for a school activity and the car had a horrible accident which left her paralyzed for life. Lo and behold, though none of us knew, an *automatic state insurance* kicked in and *paid* for everything, granting her a life time support fund to cover her care for her disability. We had no idea that even existed. She is now in her fourties and has lived almost her entire life in assisted care places thanks to this. All because it happened on a trip run by the school, and therefore it counted as a school accident!
While the overall story is very tragic, we thank the gods that Germany is a place that *can* be thorough, well organized and actually caring for people with its social safety net.
God bless Social Democracy!
So having said all this, the above piece of paper merely protects the school and its drivers from direct lawsuits. German courts aren’t very much inclined to grant much money there anyways. I’m a a parent, and I would sign this without much hesitation.
IANAL but:
Legally, signing this document has no consequence. This is clearly a generic stipulation for a multitude of contractual uses (“AGB”, “allgemeine Geschäftsbedingung”). You cannot legally waive *all* rights within AGB. There would at least have to be a clear exception for deliberate damages etc. This omission makes the entire clause void. Therefore, this is not legally enforceable.
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Of course. Otherwise your kid stays home.
If you trust the social workers sure, otherwise your kid will not be able to attend events that are further away.
Sure. They can’t wiggle away from gross negligence with this paper, the car’s Haftpflicht will likely also have to pay in case of driver misconduct. You’re not giving away much. But your child will be very unhappy otherwise.
What did you censor under that lower blue bar? The name of the institution?
In Case of an accident you get paid by your own health insurances or by the liability insurances of the one WHO hast caused the accident.
Basically the thing is: They need a special permission for things that don’t occure every day – such as doing field trips and drive there by car. The car is insured, the social worker has a driver’s licence, all is fine. They need this waiver so that if an accident would happen, you have already accepted that the kid can be transported with the car by the social worker. Otherwise they would risk to being sued by you on the basis of “you did not ask beforehand whether I accept that the child would be in someone else’s car and being at risk of an accident” which would be possible no matter who is actually at fault for the accident.
Your child is insured against accidents through the GUV during any school event or during participation in the social group. If a school accident occurs, it is not the school social worker or the school that is liable anyway, but the legal carrier. In the event of damage, this pays significantly more and more extensively than any private insurance. This is Germany.
Yes
…and for what it’s worth: a close relative of mine, as a school girl, was driven around for a school activity and the car had a horrible accident which left her paralyzed for life. Lo and behold, though none of us knew, an *automatic state insurance* kicked in and *paid* for everything, granting her a life time support fund to cover her care for her disability. We had no idea that even existed. She is now in her fourties and has lived almost her entire life in assisted care places thanks to this. All because it happened on a trip run by the school, and therefore it counted as a school accident!
While the overall story is very tragic, we thank the gods that Germany is a place that *can* be thorough, well organized and actually caring for people with its social safety net.
God bless Social Democracy!
So having said all this, the above piece of paper merely protects the school and its drivers from direct lawsuits. German courts aren’t very much inclined to grant much money there anyways. I’m a a parent, and I would sign this without much hesitation.
IANAL but:
Legally, signing this document has no consequence. This is clearly a generic stipulation for a multitude of contractual uses (“AGB”, “allgemeine Geschäftsbedingung”). You cannot legally waive *all* rights within AGB. There would at least have to be a clear exception for deliberate damages etc. This omission makes the entire clause void. Therefore, this is not legally enforceable.