[artplumber]

Originally posted by Rodeo
You're stuck on this negligence thing. It's not relevant. Nor should it be.

Your opinion.

And, yes, if the pilot offs himself, the company has no de facto obligation to the widow simply because it happened on the job. If the company sent him up with a plane that wasn't airworthy that would be an entirely different thing.

And frankly the tort system sucks and I do not embrace it. A panel of arbiters is much more reasonable. The lousy tort system does things like assign $5+ million awards for lost wages to people making 25K/yr (or less). Even in it's best case that means an award = 40 yrs of work (1 mill and 25K) to people without that earning potential.

EDIT: And as per Len: Life insurance.