On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:29:26 -0500, "Upscale"
wrote:


"dpb" wrote in message
that they have entered the market on their own I've begun to mellow a
little, but I still fret over what CPSC may eventually do w/ the
petition...

Nothing at all. It's entirely obvious that *any* company of merit using
tablesaws in its business will be forced by the insurance industry to adopt
the Sawstop or a competing technology. It's already happening. Considering
the litigiousness of American society, it will happen much sooner than
later. There's just too much liability not to do otherwise. We're not so
quick to head into the courts up here in Canada, but it's happening here
too. Ask Robin Lee if he's replaced his fleet of tablesaws with Sawstops
yet. Last Saturday after seminar with Peter Boeckh at the Toronto flagship
store, I spent a few minutes examining the Sawstop in the next room.


I think you over estimate insurance companies. If there is an
"industry" where the pressure would be on to use the SawStop or
something similar I would think that high schools and Vo-Tech schools
would be it. The combination of very inexperienced users and low
"worker" to supervisor ratio would seem to me to create an environment
where liability would be high. However I can assure you that none of
the representatives of the 4 insurance companies that quoted on my
district's insurance required, or for that matter had ever heard of,
the sawstop - I asked each and every one of them, and also the
insurance broker that was working with us to obtain this year's
quotes.

Dave Hall