When waterproofing company turned a homeowner's yard into a hazardous-waste site, it sued the homeowner
Maybe you have to be a lawyer to read the decision in Clean Harbors Environmental Services vs. Boston Basement Technologies and not go: WTF?
In 2005, some guy hired Boston Basement Technologies to waterproof his basement. While doing that, the company broke the fuel line to his furnace, which resulted in roughly 150 gallons of heating oil collecting in his sump pump, which activated and pumped the oil into his yard. The company called in Clean Harbors, which specializes in hazardous-waste cleanups and then asked its insurance company to cover the costs. The insurance company declined, saying it wasn't going to pay for negligence. At which point, Clean Harbors sued Boston Basement Technologies and Boston Basement Technologies sued, among others, the homeowner.
Clean Harbors and Boston Basement Technologies eventually kissed and made up. So did Boston Basement Technologies and the homeowner. And today, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled that Boston Basement Technologies' insurance policy covered stuff like breaking a fuel-oil line and so it sent the case back to Superior Court to figure out just how much the insurance company will have to pay.
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Boston Basement Technologies - haven't we discussed them before?
I'd swear we had at least one LONG thread about this company before, but Google is not finding it for me. It finds pages that point to http://www.universalhub.com/node/5454 but that page is missing from the site. (Adam, any ideas why?)
A pox on thee, search engine
A pox on thee, search engine unfriendly URLs!
Not an SEO issue here
See my answer to Ron.
But speaking of URLs, Drupal allows for human-readable URLs. I'm thinking of enabling it when I finally upgrade the software (maybe as early as this week).
My mistake, I should've said
My mistake, I should've said "cryptic and nonsensical human-unfriendly URLs!"
Yeah, I vaguely remember that
I think I took that down because it was in my "let anybody say whatever the hell they want" days and it got filled with possibly libelous allegations.
Are they the ones with the raunchy commercials?
Wasn't there some innuendorific basement contractor that had commercials about how they're happy to go down there whether it's wet or not, or something like that?
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