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18k for damaged household cable

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strawberry:
isnt that anything upto power meter is owned by power company
dig new cable or repair it, why bring whole property to code(why change something that works)

tom66:
I don't get the "bringing up to code" thing.  The invoice she showed had line items for plumbing, like checking the kitchen drains and the bathroom faucet.  What would that have to do with the electrics? Even if you had to bring the whole panel up to code, I can't see it costing $18k.  The cable repair should cost a tenth of that too.  I think this poor woman got ripped off on the repair as well as by the negligent contractor.   :-//

Psi:
Yeah, paying for it outright herself was probably a mistake, but hard to say. It was 'risky' lets put it that way.

If eventually she does get reimbursed for all the 18k she may come out on top with all that extra work done for free.
There was likely more stuff included in that 18k bill that legally needed to be there and any insurance company is going to object to paying for things that didn't actually need to be done. 

I'm not sure how you're supposed to handle this kind of situation in USA, but in NZ there would be free things you could do to force one of the parties to arrange a fix within a reasonable timeframe. Then the two companies can fight it out as to who actually pays later on.

strawberry:
was accident with electronic power meter . basically voltage sense coils melted and was fined with new power meter and neighborhood power loss bill totaling ~1-2k
because he did some weird wiring experiments(free energy stuff I guess) on his property, TV3 company bring up some 'expert scientist'(clearly can see that he never saw real coil in real life) to back up damaged meter claim
I think it was just faulty meter
I had one that didnt booted but kept  relay engaged

In USA I think they milk insurance. Louis Rossman interview about medics paying ~100 for pair of disposable gloves

Psi:
Insurance really needs to be done differently.
It needs to be split into to different entities.
So the entity who investigates and decides if your claim is legit and ok to be paid out has no financial interest to avoid paying out.

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