Discussion: Legal Fees

Wouldn't your employer cover you if it was related to your work? Sad that you have to think about this.

One would expect so, but the answer I got when I asked the question last year was somewhat more equivocal than I would have hoped.

I am kind of surprised that a cursory search suggests that personal umbrella insurance (which is supposed to cover this kind of risk) doesn't seem to exist in Australia. Americans above a certain level of assets and income are recommended to hold it as a matter of course (if only to cover the risk of causing a catastrophic car accident and being wiped out financially thereby - car insurance tends to top out at a few hundred thousand in payouts to wronged parties, and then umbrella insurance goes on top for the next couple of million). It's actually fairly cheap, too, since such risks are not so common.

If a society runs its litigation system like the United States, it needs a few of the other US institutions to help make the burden more tolerable.

Lizzie's poster on Friday AM. "Is there a Link Between Geomagnetic Reversal Frequency and Paleointensity? A Bayesian Approach" Elizabeth M Ingham, David Heslop, Andrew P Roberts, Rhys Hawkins

My PhD student gave a talk today and PDF had a poster. No legal action yet.

Standing room only to see James Hansen talk on his recent PLOS ONE paper.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137...

I believe the talk will be available to view for free later and likely at this link.
http://www.youtube.com/user/AGUvideos/videos