Government Liability

[cthewades]

We will be training Government pilots in Government-owned and company-owned aircraft. In the commercial realm, we require a significant insurance policy but the Government would not issue a policy. Would we would be covered under some law, act or regulation. Can someone tell me how we are covered if one of our trainers are hurt during a training period or our aircraft is damaged? Would we just need to carry the insurance and charge that to the Government?

[Guest Vern Edwards]

I doubt that the government is going to buy insurance to cover you for anything, but I don't know that to be true. My thought is that if you want to be insured you'd better buy some insurance. I presume that you would want to recover the cost of it in your price to the government.