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When a Harrison Avenue water main burst, BWSC should have gotten right on the phone and called car owners to move their vehicles, insurance company claims in suit
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If you squint
that looks just like Piazza San Marco during the Acqua Alta.
BWSC had his phone number?
Or is the insurance company saying that BWSC could have called the garage, and the garage had contact information for all garage-users, and should have called the owners of all cars parked there? If so, perhaps the garage should be party to the suit as well.
But even then, I feel it might be a bit doubtful that the owner could have extracted the car in a safe and timely fashion. They might not even have been allowed in.
City of Boston
The city should have access to a phone number for the owner of every car garaged in Boston. If not the city, then the management company for the condo would have phone numbers for everyone in the garage, and the contact information for the management company is posted by the entrance to the building.
But as you said, we don't know if the owner could have gotten their car out safely even if they had known. And during an emergency like that, saving automobiles from flooding was probably not BWSC's top concern.
I don't know how they would
I don't know how they would have reached the BMW's owner but the city has emergency notification systems. I know people that live in basements in that area. There should have been a communication to residents, but there was nothing. it took a while to flood the garage, it wasn't a flash flood.
The city should have phone #
The city should have phone #'s of every car owner ? What world do you live in? Even if they did, figuring out who to call (& how?!) Is a whole additional step, and if after business hours .. hlagain, who would sort through the non-existent database and wmhow would they know which streets & car owners to call?
They have my phone number.
The city sends me alerts all the time.
It may have been a commercial
It may have been a commercial vehicle where the city requires your contact info to be on the side of the vehicle to enjoy commercial parking privileges. Many real estate agents do this and given it was a BMW, that is probably the situation at hand.
BWSC
Will spend $500,000 to defend a $50k claim. File BWSC legal team in the same category as the City of Boston’s.
Well if they settle or give
Well if they settle or give up the claim then every other person who had things damaged in the flood is going to go for their piece of the pie. Spend 500k to defeat a 50k claim and 100 other 50k claims.
BWSC?
Does that stand for something like Boston Water and Sewer Commission? Please spell out less common acronyms when you first use them - most of us know the ones that show up here frequently, but I don't remember seeing BWSC before. Thx.
Bavarian Motor Works
Just in case you didn't know what BMW was for either, though they originally were known for airplane engines which is why their logo is meant to invoke a spinning propeller against the sky.
You're thinking of the
You're thinking of the Mercedes logo.
Thought I never owned a home
Thought I never owned a home in Boston, I’m well aware what BWSC stands for.
I'll also help you out
AM/PM “ante meridiem” and “post meridiem”
I'll let someone else tell you what MOFO means.
It's in the attached file, if that helps.
Also, BFD is Boston Fire Department, and PDF is Portable Document Format. :-)
That last point was so
That last point was so important it needed to be said twice.
Liberty Mutual thinks that
Liberty Mutual thinks that sending someone to retrieve a car into a flooding garage, is reasonable? Sounds unsafe.
used BMWs...
You buried the lede!
HEADLINE: If you bought a 2019 BMW at auction for $9k in 2020, it had probably suffered significant water damage.
Salvage title
The salvage title is a huge hint.
Most of these don't go to a traditional gaveled auction anyway. They get sold off in lots, essentially as well-tracked scrap. The buyers are well aware what happened to the vehicles.