When a participant in a cross-country bicycle tour was hit by a car and killed during the ride, his estate sued both the driver of the car and the nonprofit tour association that organized and sponsored the tour for negligence. The association argued that the case should be dismissed against it because the plaintiff had not provided expert testimony that it had violated the professional standard of care for tour organizers. A federal District Court in Washington has disagreed. ( Nedeau v. Armstrong, E.D. WA, No. CV-09-0189, 3/8/11 .) On the fourth day of the tour, the participant was riding side-by-side with a companion on a recumbent bike, wearing an Association-approved orange caution...