[Brenda]

housewife housewife:

Benn Hubby reminds me that when he was doing the Civy Contractor his company had extra insurance on all employees out of country. It was taken out for acts of war they even had kidnap insurance. It is just a cost of doing business

And that is how it should be for all people who are stationed abroad. Regardless of who their boss is. It should be mandatory.

[housewife]

Brenda Brenda:

housewife housewife:

Benn Hubby reminds me that when he was doing the Civy Contractor his company had extra insurance on all employees out of country. It was taken out for acts of war they even had kidnap insurance. It is just a cost of doing business

And that is how it should be for all people who are stationed abroad. Regardless of who their boss is. It should be mandatory.

It should be mandatory! If they want their employees to work out of country then they should have an insurance for them.

[Benn]

housewife housewife:

Brenda Brenda:

housewife housewife:

Benn Hubby reminds me that when he was doing the Civy Contractor his company had extra insurance on all employees out of country. It was taken out for acts of war they even had kidnap insurance. It is just a cost of doing business

And that is how it should be for all people who are stationed abroad. Regardless of who their boss is. It should be mandatory.

It should be mandatory! If they want their employees to work out of country then they should have an insurance for them.

I don't know the ins and outs as my wife was the one who worked on the Admin / Consular side of the embassy but I recall something about how government does not take out insurance (can't explain SISIP or whatever it is) on much of anything. For example they don't have insurance on any government building as someone crunched the numbers once and decided it would be cheaper to just rebuild them with available funds as opposed to insure for the very limited possibility one burns down or something. There were other angle to why which kind of made sense but the discussion was years ago.

Maybe the same philosophy goes for life insurance. Maybe they pay out whatever on a case by case basis. If I hear what they did for the spouse I'll update here. She was not our friend though, she started with immigration the same time as one of our friends and I doubt the media will follow up on those details.

[Zipperfish]

Benn Benn:

I don't know the ins and outs as my wife was the one who worked on the Admin / Consular side of the embassy but I recall something about how government does not take out insurance (can't explain SISIP or whatever it is) on much of anything. For example they don't have insurance on any government building as someone crunched the numbers once and decided it would be cheaper to just rebuild them with available funds as opposed to insure for the very limited possibility one burns down or something. There were other angle to why which kind of made sense but the discussion was years ago.

Maybe the same philosophy goes for life insurance. Maybe they pay out whatever on a case by case basis. If I hear what they did for the spouse I'll update here. She was not our friend though, she started with immigration the same time as one of our friends and I doubt the media will follow up on those details.

Insurance is a money losing proposition, averaged out over time. If it wasn't there wouldn't be an insurance business. So it would be finanically disadvantageous for an entity to take out insurance if it has the means to pay.

[BartSimpson]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

Seems a retired British Marine armed with a semi-auto handgun is responsible for saving over 100 people from the mall massacre.

$1:

A former marine emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.

[2Cdo]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430201/British-hero-mall-massacre-Ex-Royal-Marine-handgun-saved-100-lives-terrorists-ran-amok.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Seems a retired British Marine armed with a semi-auto handgun is responsible for saving over 100 people from the mall massacre.

$1:

A former marine emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.

I heard it was a serving member of the British army who happens to be a member of the SAS!

[BartSimpson]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430201/British-hero-mall-massacre-Ex-Royal-Marine-handgun-saved-100-lives-terrorists-ran-amok.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Seems a retired British Marine armed with a semi-auto handgun is responsible for saving over 100 people from the mall massacre.

$1:

A former marine emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.

I heard it was a serving member of the British army who happens to be a member of the SAS!

Either way it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

[BartSimpson]

And now I'm hearing the Brit was active duty SAS on the radio.

[saturn_656]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

And now I'm hearing the Brit was active duty SAS on the radio.

News said he couldn't be identified for "security" reasons, that's probably why.

[EyeBrock]

The Brits have a training camp quite close to Nairobi. I've spent many months around there and Mombasa. They rotate infantry battalions through there annually. The Kenyans have a reasonably well trained military but their cops are corrupt and useless.

[Jabberwalker]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

And now I'm hearing the Brit was active duty SAS on the radio.

The British media say that he is a Royal Marine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -amok.html

If he is, he isn't S.A.S. .... S.B.S., maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Service

[BartSimpson]

Either way he did a fine job.