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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
More it's just the money and calculating what the hit would be to the lifestyle if you sign off and live off what you've accumulated, if any.
It's pure randomness but part of what we do is not play win or lose but compromise. Settling for less than you want is better than losing a shit claim; it's way better than losing a good claim.
On another note, crossing the street in Thailand is one of two very dangerous activities, the other being eating chicken. One you can factor in how far the car, scooter or tuk tuk is; the other you never know until it's too late.
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I assume an old guy who has enough cash to afford a G5 can probably afford to keep it flying without continuing to work, or could downsize a bit and enjoy life in a perhaps smaller private jet.
Settling a shit claim actually felt pretty bad. I dinged a medical professional on an absolutely bullshit case and I'm pretty sure if there was such thing as karma, I'd suffer some really awfully malady for what I did. Our client was a fool, the injury claimed was not the professional's fault, a mediator told us so, but following the Nuremberg Defense, I did as I was told and we extracted a nice check based on threat of trial. That kind of thing is a bit easier when you're doing it to a large corporation. But I harmed an individual. That I had to do it because I was just an employee has never made the feeling that our system is seriously fucked up, and what I did was cosmically wrong yet totally ethical within that fucked up system, go away.
I have many of the same views of plea bargains. There's a deep inconsistency, a massive contradiction, in having a system ostensibly built to determine truth rely almost entirely on deals, acting, gamesmanship, and negotiating skill.
And yet I still happily refer cases and love to get those "money for nothing" referral fee checks in the mail.
