[BC] Dark station.... Violations.. who is responsible

[Blake Bowers]

That is a pretty common thing - the insurance
company decides that the payment is cheaper
than fighting it.  You can fight it if you want, at
your own expense, but if you want your insurance
to deal with it, they do it how they want.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Dark station.... Violations.. who is responsible


> One has to hope that this is just a nasty slap by the insurance company at 
> the business. This sort of idiocy should be overthrown on appeal.  They 
> probably just didn't want to pay for it.  I hope they are not my insurance 
> agent.
>
> At 01:41 PM 12/24/2006, Gary Peterson wrote
>>A few years ago, a business, that my wife worked for, leased ground floor
>>space in a commercial building (that belonged to a law firm).  One of the
>>employees of the tenant business had been shoveling snow off the sidewalk
>>out front because the landlord had been negligent in doing so.  The lease
>>did specify that snow removal was the landlord's responsibility.  Late one
>>afternoon, during a freezing rain, a jogger slipped, fell and broke her
>>wrist in front of this business.  Because the tenant business had been
>>"maintaining" the sidewalks, it was found to be liable, rather than the
>>landlord, and had to pay a rather large settlement.  (The tenant's 
>>insurance
>>company paid the settlement and significantly raised their insurance
>>premiums.)  The tenant's lawyer told them not to shovel a single snowflake
>>in the future.  If someone broke their neck, it would be the landlord's
>>problem then.  Doesn't that give you a warm feeling about trying to be
>>helpful?
>
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