• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Alternatively wasn’t he floating some kind of mandatory insurance scheme? mandatory in the sense that the insurer can’t refuse. Sounds like a great time to liquidate some ageing stock for yhuge profits.

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      2 hours ago

      No. Reinsurance “scheme” lets an insurer transfer all risk. If US government is willing to pay the insurer $100M, then they will charge the ship $1M or $99M for the voyage, but keep $100M total. Brian Kilmede will not volunteer to be crew on the ships no matter the pay, either.

      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 hours ago

        Should’ve involuntarily added him to the crew of that genius “submarine”. Missed our chance.