An American Insurance Lawyer in England and What Insurance Practitioners Can Learn From My Trip to Harrods

Originally published by Chip Merlin.

Last month after a case settled just before trial started, I spent a couple of weeks in Paris and London. I promised Oxford and Texas A&M Presidential scholar George Edwards last year I would try to meet him if my calendar cleared up. It did at the last minute and off I went.
Here is a picture of George and me outside the British Museum:

And another of him pontificating to me about the importance of the Rosetta Stone:

I needed that Rosetta Stone or its modern-day equivalent while in France. Readers of this blog know that my English grammar is somewhat suspect—and I practice English every day. French—you have never heard anybody butcher that beautiful language until you listen to me try to speak it. An example was me trying to explain to a Parisian cab driver I wanted to go to the famous bridge "Pont Alexandre." It led to me pointing at a yellow card (for gold) and pretending to claw in the air while growling (the bridge has gold lions). The cab driver…

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