Submitted by sid from Brooklyn, Aug 9, 2008 11:00

I don't understand the comptrollers reasoning. Is the city now the insurer of these claims? If you want insurance you buy it but now you can just ask the city to pay. I had a leak in my cellar during the last storm. It had nothing to do with the city but that the ground was saturated.

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