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How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you’re a contractor, you should be carrying your own insurance anyways. Lots of beginners don’t bother setting up an LLC and insurance, because they don’t realize how bad it can be if they have an accident on the job. If you haven’t set up that LLC and have insurance at a bare minimum, then you’re in for a world of shit if someone gets hurt.

Source: Was a freelancer for a decade. Half of the goobers I worked around were sole owner/operators of an LLC, and the others were completely open to personal liability if they dropped something on someone.