http://www.jerebeasleyreport.com/2008/12/court-says-blackwater-suit-will-stay-in-arbitration/ The Jere Beasley Report Mon, 20 May 2013 01:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.jerebeasleyreport.com/2008/12/court-says-blackwater-suit-will-stay-in-arbitration/comment-page-1/#comment-17701 Mo Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:30:05 +0000 http://www.jerebeasleyreport.com/?p=2663#comment-17701 Sad, except for the fact that they collect Defense Base Act insurance, which is the government contractor's version of Workers' Comp. And, like Workers' Comp, the social compact is behind the "insurance" is that you never have to go to court or to prove liability, all you have to do is show harm and then collect $$$. So the fact that some ambulance-chaser plaintiff's lawyer won't get 1/3 of a giant windfall ain't exactly breaking my heart. But write it up as a tragedy---anything to polarize the debate and villify gov't contractors, right? Sad, except for the fact that they collect Defense Base Act insurance, which is the government contractor’s version of Workers’ Comp. And, like Workers’ Comp, the social compact is behind the “insurance” is that you never have to go to court or to prove liability, all you have to do is show harm and then collect $$$. So the fact that some ambulance-chaser plaintiff’s lawyer won’t get 1/3 of a giant windfall ain’t exactly breaking my heart. But write it up as a tragedy—anything to polarize the debate and villify gov’t contractors, right?

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