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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2014-11-25 06:42 pm

Apparently there is going to be another Jurassic Park sequel

Set at "Jurassic World". I would love to hear a Bob Newhart-style monolog from the point of view of the insurance broker tasked with getting insurance for JW.

[identity profile] anton-p-nym.livejournal.com 2014-11-25 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Since the insurance representative in "Jurassic Park" got eaten by a T-Rex, I'd be equally interested in a Bob Newhart-style monolog from the point of view of the broker.

-- Steve wonders how a follow-on group would find enough investors, given the somewhat dire public relations problem involved.
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[identity profile] agent-mimi.livejournal.com 2014-11-26 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
When I was an insurance broker assigned to get coverage for our city's fireworks display, there were many days I wished I could get out of the job by being eaten by a dinosaur.

[identity profile] nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com) 2014-11-27 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Fireworks are a routine-enough thing that I would have expected getting insurance for the show to be not a big deal procedurally-wise. Expensive, maybe, depending on the track record of whoever you hired to do the show, but not hard to get underwritten.
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[identity profile] agent-mimi.livejournal.com 2014-11-27 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Routine but dangerous and under highly variable conditions that one can't control (weather, crowd size, traffic, etc.) We didn't have a city fireworks display this year because they couldn't get insurance at all. Apparently they've been self insuring for a few years (through bonding, I'm assuming) but weren't able to this year, not sure why.