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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The letter is from the insurance company.
Since "you break, you buy" is apparently the applicable rule, can you tell me how the law works in relation to "you pay insurance premiums..."
Because this was a public facility, they are taxpayers, and they are the ones PAYING the insurance on the ridiculously expensive and fragile object placed in a party venue.
On top of their taxes, someone was paying to rent the facility. Do you suppose part of what is paid in insurance was likely factored into the rental fee?
What happened here is that the insurance company got the claim and said "why the fuck did they put that statute in there? we're not paying that!"
The responsibility lies with whomever made the genius decision to put an unstable expensive top-heavy glass sculpture in a multi-purpose community center.