Mouse Tail Opens, Shuts Global Insurance Case

A container full of sterile goods left Eastern China one day and ended up, four months later, in the Netherlands. As unpackers were rummaging through packing material, they turned up a tiny mummified mouse. The goods, evidently, were not sterile.They were insured, though, and the insurance company needed to figure out who was to blame. Did the vermin board in China, or the Netherlands?Read more at...The Last Word on Nothing, December 2010.