Actually, if you think about the hypothetical question in the original post, it's a very apt example. The McDonald's coffee burn was a case in which t...

This question makes me think of the person that burned themself on the hot coffee, then sued McDonald's - and won. I don't doubt that if one were to ...

It helps to keep some of that 100% DEET concoction off your skin, too.

You might wish to contact the professional surveyor's associations for Louisiana and surrounding states. There are often newsletters you can place an ...

Clearly, Massachusetts law does not apply, but here goes: neglect of a road has nothing to do with the legal standing of the public right of way. Only...

Same as "plumber" and "plumbing" - the Romans used lead for their water piping. And the Periodic Chart symbol for lead is "Pb".

I always thought that when filing a LOMA you were supposed to hold the surveyed elevation of the flood plain. The FEMA mapping is less precise than wh...

The fly will not be squished by the trains, if the "opposite directions" of travel are away from each other.

For boundary surveys that are going to be recorded, no, not without a specific need. For building permit plans and topographic survey plans, yes, regu...

Yes, this all the way. ^^^ I've convinced other surveyors that my determination is correct. I've been convinced that their boundaries were correct. It...

From the NCEES website: "NCEES is composed of 69?ÿmember licensing boards from each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islan...

Double this ^^^^. While FEMA has updated the mapping of the flood plain lines, the model used to define those lines could still be based on surveys r...

Considering that 30 years ago, many of my college text books were up in that price range, this cost seems somewhat reasonable. In college, I had no ch...

A few years ago 250 C.M.R. was revised, and incorporated a lot of the advisory rulings into the revisions. I suggest you start there. The latest vers...