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need your authority to go back to Dejamette and Paul and bargain with them. After all, if you don’t ask, you won’t get.” The board agreed with Rosenthal’s choice and gave him the authorization to negotiate with the company in attempt to reduce its quoted premiums in the board’s favor.
Rosenthal’s lively descriptions of insurance disasters livened up an otherwise dry subject. He did point out areas in which the proposal provided necessary upgrading of insurance over previous levels.
“What about the teacher who gets upset and wallops the students wo are driving him crazy,” he said about the need for increasing liability insurance. “What about the high school principal who decks an irate parent about to assault him?” What about a school bus accident. After all, 66 bodies are worth a lot of money.”
“I must say, Mr. Rosenthal, your descriptions tonight are very vivid,” said Robert Eastham, encouraging the representative to continue in better taste.
Also cited by Rosenthal was the need for more library, forgery, theft, employee dishonesty, boiler, and power failure insurance. DeJamette and Paul’s proposal, he said, contained all of these measures to upgrade the schools’ portfolio.
Rosenthal was to advise Estabrook of the final results after which the schools would contract with DeJarnette and Paul and Liberty Mutual for complete school coverage.
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