Daniel Fisher

Sailor, writer, CFA, Yale Law Knight fellow, ex- Forbesie, husband & father of 2. In no particular order.

[Daniel Fisher @DanielDFisher]

“This is a solution in search of a problem.” Or a well-paid union boss in search of more worker dues.

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

Watch as the great @declanoscanlon leaves Eric Richard of the NJ AFL-CIO tap-dancing about how many misclassification complaints the State of New Jersey has actually received, after the AFL-CIO spent years claiming that misclassification is a huge problem

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[Daniel Fisher @DanielDFisher]

Georgia jurors finally hear about the tight relations between doctors and lawyers in an accident case, and reject a million-dollar claim. https://t.co/SNFobTSvo7

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The doctor-lawyer alliance at the center of spiraling insurance premiums is dragged into public view in Georgia. https://t.co/7A0o6jSwtm

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In an unusual political alignment, the measure drew support from both the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the group that normally lines up opposite them. https://t.co/nsfLUa5Udv

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A letter that helped destroy 100 years of progress and faith in public health.

[NPR @NPR]

Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.

"White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they wrote.
https://t.co/EewPNgDSu3

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Hedge funds and private equity rake in the profits on accident lawsuits. Consumers pick up the tab: https://t.co/zwGdecnF8p

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@jayparsons @jadler1969 rent control is a vote-buying program aimed at the middle and upper-middle classes. It has never been about the poor.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you go to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, you will find the grave of Laura Bullion. It's nice enough, but not particularly remarkable. You'd never know that Laura was the only female member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" Gang.

Laura was most likely born in Knickerbocker, Texas in 1876, though there are also claims that she was born in Arkansas or Kentucky. She was probably of German and Native American heritage.

In the 1890s, Laura Bullion was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang; her cohorts were fellow outlaws, including the Sundance Kid, "Black Jack" Ketchum, and Kid Curry. For several years in the 1890s, she was romantically involved with outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), a bank and train robber and an acquaintance of her father, who had been an outlaw, as well. In 1901, Bullion was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years in prison for her participation in the Great Northern train robbery. She was released in 1905 after serving three years and six months of her punishment.

Laura Bullion moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1918, posing as a war widow and using assumed names. She supported herself as a householder and seamstress, and later as a drapery maker, dressmaker and interior designer. Her fortunes declined in the late 1940s, at which time she was without an occupation. In 1961, she died of heart disease at the Shelby County Hospital in Memphis. As I mentioned at the beginning, her final resting place is at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.

[Daniel Fisher @DanielDFisher]

In Georgia, car accidents are big business for doctors, lawyers and hedge funds — as long as nobody pokes into the financial deals they cut with each other. Plaintiffs are a commodity to be bought and sold. https://t.co/oMlXaCFAJw

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@nicholas_bagley “might try to balance their budgets on the backs of middle-class workers.” As opposed to taxpayers, who can only dream of the salaries and benefits politicians bestow on municipal union members?

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@teafortillerman @tedfrank fascinating inside baseball there

[Daniel Fisher @DanielDFisher]

Plaintiff lawyers discover Amchem - when somebody else has negotiated themselves $650 million in fees. https://t.co/C7UwxsgJI6

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@nathanvardi That’s a big number.

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Stop food addiction! A modest proposal for keeping eaters safe. https://t.co/syArW2TAZr

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

The mathematics of war: insights from the Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces.

[Daniel Fisher @DanielDFisher]

@USofStephen @receiptmaven @aseitzwald @MattZeitlin In coastal New England, if your family ever summered, even in the 1800s, you’re “summer people.” Grandpa buying land to become a gentleman farmer in the 1920s doesn’t cut it.

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‘Don’t read from AI,’ judge tells plaintiffs’ talc expert https://t.co/a5OOf29HAd

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Neither a solution nor a cost saving: “The largest share — about $2.3 billion over two years — is expected to come from the city’s delaying certain pension payments.” https://t.co/ybig2Ovs7e via @NYTimes

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Kennedy figures an investment of $49-50 million in taxpayer dollars will yield billions in legal fees for him and his pals. https://t.co/x9bjbGfbaG via @NYTimes

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

Charles Wowkanech, head of the NJ AFL-CIO, and acting Labor Commissioner Jarvis are mingling together at the NJ Senate Labor Committee hearing where testimony will be heard about the independent-contractor rule