The Loss of the Jane Vosper (2011)
“Jeffrey was anxious to reach a conclusion as to the course he would recommend his directors to follow when the claim for the £105,000 came in from the Weaver Bannister Company.
He was far from clear in his own mind as to what that course should be. Naturally he wished to avoid payment if this were possible, but he did not desire, and was not going to suggest, anything which was not strictly honourable. To evade its liabilities on some legal quibble was to him the worst possible policy for an in...surance company.
But in this case there really was a genuine doubt as to where they stood. They still didn’t know what had happened aboard the Jane Vosper. The enquiry had not cleared up the one point in the whole affair that really mattered – the origin of the explosions. Until they knew that, how could they decide their own position?
He had put these points to Alexander. ‘My strong feeling,’ he continued when they had talked them over, ‘is that we shouldn’t pay. The thing is too suspicious.MoreLess
He was far from clear in his own mind as to what that course should be. Naturally he wished to avoid payment if this were possible, but he did not desire, and was not going to suggest, anything which was not strictly honourable. To evade its liabilities on some legal quibble was to him the worst possible policy for an in...surance company.
But in this case there really was a genuine doubt as to where they stood. They still didn’t know what had happened aboard the Jane Vosper. The enquiry had not cleared up the one point in the whole affair that really mattered – the origin of the explosions. Until they knew that, how could they decide their own position?
He had put these points to Alexander. ‘My strong feeling,’ he continued when they had talked them over, ‘is that we shouldn’t pay. The thing is too suspicious.MoreLess
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