Yep. They will appeal until they’ve exhausted all remedies and then still try to negotiate the settlement down. 

Yeah, this is on upper management failing to have the right procedures in place, not the person on the line who had no script to deal with the situation and I assume a manager who didn’t know what to do either. But the rep has probably already been fired.

You’re not seeing the long game. SF and the other big insurers have a standing policy to fight all cases like this to the bitter end. Even if this case ends up costing them money, it’s a deterrent to all the other plaintiffs who may be considering a suit. The people with smaller claims will look at this and think…

Never forget that the whole SovCit ecosystem is at it’s heart a grift.

“The casinos run this town,” another anonymous resident told me. “Liberty Media is used to bilking sponsors, municipalities, and remote race tracks. They are not accustomed to dealing with very high-powered corporations who are in the business of doing the bilking, not being bilked.

If “F1 in Vegas” actually made economic sense, they wouldn’t be resorting to these kinds of gimmicks to balance the books.

Private equity does it best, folks! /s/

Depressing but not surprising. Been waiting for this since G/O and Herb took over.

There are some MAGA billionaires out there who might just step up and pay the whole $250M for him.

Right, if the bridges are open for viewing the race, they’re going to be packed like a sardine can for possibly days beforehand.

Yes, he’s existing in 2023 without a checking or savings account. <massive eyeroll>

The private sector does it best, amirite?

“Clearly there are some jurisdictions that are using civil forfeiture as funding mechanisms,”

The body kit is painfully bad, but this is a nice departure from the usual 8-foot high bro-dozers I have to maneuver around in the Target parking lot.

In fairness, there are only about 5000 people in that town, but you can tell from the photo how many of them are just there for the free pizza.

According to the linked article, the air crew told him no help was coming and that he had to get off the plane himself. Given the crackdown on bad passenger behavior these days, I wouldn’t want to bet that taking a stand wouldn’t result in my getting arrested. I mean, sure, it would probably all work out in the end if…

This seems like one of those “brilliant-stupid” scams that you might be able to get away with once or twice but certainly not 18 times. But rather than realize that, he apparently thought, “It worked once, let’s goooo.”

That is really the problem. Whatever their differences, the various factions in the Democratic Party actually want the federal government to function and do things, if they may disagree on what those things are. Post-Trump, there are just too many Republicans who simply want to blow everything up.

“The GOP can’t even govern itself, why should anyone trust them to govern the country?” should be the Democratic refrain for the next 12 months.

Emmer is the only one with the credibility for the job, and he won’t get it because MAGA world views him as a traitor. He’ll probably fall 10-15 votes short as the magats take their revenge on the “moderates” for Jordan’s failed bid.