Tag Archives: Miscellaneous
‘Tis the season to be politicking
In perusing this article and this article in the Insurance Journal I was struck by the differences between the everyday understanding of an insurance contract and the understanding I have been gaining through working with them in the legal system….
A quick missing link
In searching for a topic that could wake me up and get my brain flowing this Monday morning I got a bit sidetracked looking at this article on Above the Law. (As a side note, if you never surf that…
Made for TV
In April, when I first saw an article about Worker’s Comp, a TV show pilot following the inner-workings of an insurance company, I couldn’t believe there was enough humor to base an entire comedy series on the topic. Today, I…
The Missing Links
The Cutting Edge: Whoever said insurance coverage wasn’t on the cutting edge of civil rights (if anyone has ever actually said that . . . or thought about it even) hasn’t been keeping up with Lambda Legal or its most…
Hit and Run Links
Hey, at least it’s an Ethos: This story reminded me of the classic comedy The Big Lebowski, where Walter Sobchak contrasts nihilism with Naziism: "I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s…
Dumbing down analysis with dictionaries
Generally in insurance analysis when I see a court resort to a dictionary definition to interpret a word or phrase in a policy I figure what’s going to follow will be a fairly facile, superficial explanation. Usually that’s the way…
Give the ABA a pat on the back
It was a rude awakening when I graduated law school and was faced with the realization that schools were able to beat the system and were not being totally honest when they report extremely high percentages of students with jobs…
Blogging, branding and the free-gap
Seth Godin has some insights on game theory, the marketplace of ideas and the demand for free. "Radio thirty years ago was simple: everyone hears it for free and a few buy it. For a time, one could use free…
The Missing Links
Will he write boxer briefs? Following the example of Bruno Campos (see page 11) and others who left the spotlight to attend law school, Juan Diaz, former unified lightweight titlist, is starting at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Law School….
As promised
David mentioned in his post on May 19, 2011 that he is going to have some help blogging and that he’s going to be broadening the format of the blog somewhat beyond insurance analysis including a de-Scruggsification of the blog….
