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Originally posted by RawAlex@Apr 16 2004, 09:02 PM
I am not sure the studios can be blamed for reckless behavior of individual actors.
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True, with some occupations there is definitely an increased health risks...
A Police officer shot in the line of duty
A Firefighter killed in a blaze
A High rise construction work that plunges to their death
A crab fisherman killed at sea...
I'm sure the list goes on and on.. The performer has some responsibility for agreeing to do a high risk job.
I'm wondering (in our litigous society) would a court think a studio is to blame for "unsafe work conditions" for their actors?
If a nurse at a hospital contracts HIV (through no direct fault of her own... Simply doing her job as it was intended), is the hospital liable? I'm not talking about a nurse accidentally pricking herself with an infected needle... imagine if she did her job as intended, but still contracted it at work.