The Claim Department Meeting
Thursday, March 20th, 2003 Risk ManagementMy teenage daughter is a devotee of a television program called Mystery Science Theatre. It consists of a weekly choice of the worst science fiction movies ever made. While the movie runs, the program’s characters, a man and two puppets, make running comments about what they are viewing. One recent movie had to do with a mutiny aboard a spaceship. Some of the ship’s officers were sitting around a very corporate-looking conference table, planning the details of the crime. One got cold feet and announced that he would not participate and would inform the captain forthwith. The rest seized him, pinioned him to the table, and ran him through with a spearing device conveniently located nearby. As he lay dying on the table, a puppet’s voice is heard: “Finally! A meeting where something got done.”
