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> Compensation for filing legitimate claims is an important carrot to encourage people with inside information to speak out I've found over the course of my li
by romaaeterna 7y ago
> Compensation for filing legitimate claims is an important carrot to encourage people with inside information to speak out
I've found over the course of my life that money encourages all sorts of people to say all sorts of things.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoThe lack of money, on the other hand, has caused many to keep their mouths shut.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoThat's nice. I'm not sure exactly what you think is happening here, but "make up a bunch of stuff and use it to pursue a whistleblower claim" doesn't strike me as a very appealing or sound strategy for ill-gotten gains. This isn't something that gets litigated in backroom discussions or tabloid news outlets.
- romaaeterna 7y agoHave you ever been in a courtroom? Not a lot of neutral statements of unvarnished truth pass back and forth there. Some do, but not many. I am extraordinarily worried about the precedent of paying witnesses for their testimony, which is what this amounts to. However good we think that our reasons may be.
- generatorguy 7y agoExpert witnesses get paid for their testimony all the time.
- romaaeterna 7y agoExpert witnesses are paid by the hour, and still get paid whether the case is won or lost. The abuses of honesty in the expert witnesses system are still horrific enough.