Risk, Re-/Insurance and Future Thinking
From the category archives:
Good post and better comments from the Economist on how the free market may change business (esp. air) travel in the future.
We are currently 45th in line to take off and running a bit late. However, our handsome pilot has just negotiated, for you, dear passenger, a private insurance waiver with a Nigerian E-Finance minister [...]
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I heard that a Senior Partner of a leading City practice avers to his colleagues that the reason he gets in at 10.30am and leaves at 4pm is because “the season ticket is cheaper” at that time.
Hmm. That’s a firm on the up-and-up, I’d say, though I confess to some admiration for the tenacity [...]
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This problem-solving algorithm from Richard Feynman is one of my favourite–pithy but not wholly inaccurate:
1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very hard.
3. Write down the solution.
You could sometimes wish that people would apply it, couldn’t you.
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Merlin Mann runs 43 Folders (a very good site on productivity, GTD etc). He also runs 5ives, in which he posts sporadically about 5 funny, semi-made-up things.
Recently he had “5 nouns from which it can be difficult to scrub the scent of utter bullshit”:
1. Performance
2. Excellence
3. Mission Statement
4. Synergy
5. Enterprise
I don’t think you’ll [...]
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This is apparently true:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
ORLANDO DIVISION
Case No. 6:05-cv-1430-Orl-31JGG
AVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC.,
d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc.,
Plaintiff,
-vs-
WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE
COMPANY,
Defendant.
______________________________________
ORDER
This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to designate location of a Rule
30(b)(6) deposition (Doc. 105). Upon consideration of the Motion – the latest in a series of Gordian knots that the parties have [...]
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From The Economist comes this amusingly Moleworthian “crib to reel thorts” on airline announcements:
> “GOOD morning, ladies and gentlemen. We are delighted to welcome you aboard Veritas Airways, the airline that tells it like it is. Please ensure that your seat belt is fastened, your seat back is upright and your tray-table is stowed. At [...]
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In the next exciting installment of Stupid Lawyers, dear Reader, we bring you the most excellent instance of some attorneys being given a final chance to get their pleaded case right.
What did they do? Re-consider the evidence? Interview the witnesses? More legal research?
No.
They changed the typeface.
> Wow, I couldn’t see the [...]
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OK, it’s officially Silly Season and there really is very little going on of note in the legal/reinsurance world at present [Note: this may be later entered under the "Famous Last Words" section], so for your reading pleasure, gang, I bring you this marvellous take on the Homeland Security Advisory colour-coding system of threat level [...]
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Brilliant site here, featuring the Old Testament…in Lego.
Highlights of [the Law section](http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/index.html):
* When to stone your children
* When to stone your whole family
* How long to hang somebody
and more.
Very South Park.
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This said-to-be-true story (it’s in CNN so it must be…;-) ) demonstrates at once the heaven and hell of the US legal system: hell in the idiocy of the lawyers involved; heaven in the judge’s brilliantly appropriate solution:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION
AVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC., d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc.,
Plaintiff,
-vs-
WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS [...]
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