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Wait, it's un-American to point out that a company was ignoring it OWN safety protocols?
I deal in liability all day every day for a living. I'm pretty fucking good at understanding it. There's a huge difference between an "accident", like when a car strikes an animal or downed tree, or an "avoidable mishap", like when a trucker is speeding and plows into the back of stopped traffic.
I wrote an account a long, long time ago that had manufactured dry cleaning equipment for decades (like 70 years). They constantly paid claims because the old machinery didn't have basic safety guards. We tried and tried to get them to do something to address the owners of the old equipment, but they just didn't see it as a problem. That's probably why their premium increased 500% in 2 years.
BP, Transoceanic, Haliburton and the still-unnamed manufacturer of the blowout preventer are all on the hook for this. Actually, their insurance companies are. And you better expect that those folks are going to pay. This was no accident. They were speeding at night in the rain with a big load behind them. It wasn't pre-ordained that this would happen, but they didn't take the basic steps to make sure that it didn't. Therefore, they're fucked.
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