Ah, I had not considered the insurers! Those will be the ones forcing the reform. Talk about clout.
Yep, it was the insurance industry that gave us the various life
safety Codes (the "national electrical code", NFPA70), Underwriter's Labs,
etc.
My experience has been that nobody in positions of monetary authority (read:
power) will stop a show. We can go back to the Indiana State Fair roof blow-down and the Sugarland refusal to alter the performance schedule, the "promoter" (entertainment broker for the Fair Board) who insisted the show go on, and the lack of "BEFORE the Bad Thing Happens®" planning on the part of the Fair. People died as a result (
IATSE truss spot ops were told to go up or get fired), and many were injured. There were multiple fingers to
point: Mid America, James Thomas Engineering, Indy State Fair, the structural engineer that made errors in loading calcs... The documents from the investigations by Whitt Associates (planning and response) and Thornton Tomasetti (forensic engineers) were on the State of Indiana web site for 10 years, and the T-T report is still available on
line from other sources; not sure about the Whitt report, but it was especially damning when it came to the "leadership" of an imminent disaster situation and pointed out that most of the negative decisions were made by people who had a monetary interest in not cancelling or postponing the performance. Until the fines exceed the potential profits by 10X, these bad non-decisions will continue.
Travis Scott should be personally liable for part of the damages, and Live Nation/TicketScum should be on the hook for the rest.