[BC] Keeping an eye on the ground

[wmroradio at bellsouth.net]

Tom,
  I don't think insurance covers these acts caused by electric utilities. I have to look at my policy and see, but mostly likely, ConEdison operates like Nashville Electric Service. They have some sort of legal laws to protect them on claims.
  Nashville Electric has had some major customers sue them over damage equipment caused by too much HV coming from the substation. Also, Nashville Electric has got some people killed downtown due to a underground transformer was put in and not had been in operation since they bought it, 15 years prior of the blow up,when it was installed in the underground vault in Downtown Nashville.
  The network transformer was purchased new in 1986 and sat until installed in 2000 or 2001. When they energized the transformer, it blew up, killing two people. Nashville Electric was sued big time for that!

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Scott Bailey
President/General Manager
WMRO-AM, Magic 1560
Gallatin, TN

  
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From: "Thomas G. Osenkowsky" <tosenkowsky at prodigy.net>
>
> > What burns me up is the utility claims that they are not responsible 
> > for replacement of items when this happens.
> 
> I like your choice of words, maybe a little bit of me has rubbed
> off on you :-) I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on television,
> but it seems to me that the utility should operate under tariffs
> which specify a range of voltage, etc. Supply outside of that
> range means they failed to operate with their tariffs. No doubt
> acts of God, etc. are excepted. Would their not be grounds for
> claim against the company who felled a tree on the power lines?
> 
> I do believe that ConEdison compensated merchants in Astoria,
> Queens (NYC) after an extended blackout a few years back. Several
> of their underground cables failed, burned and took some time to
> replace. An attorney versed in utility law should be a valuable
> resource under such situations. Does insurance cover such
> damage?
> 
> Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE
> 
>