If you are a policyholder or insurance company shareholder you will have suffered a financial loss if proven that Thames Water acted negligently in not activating pumping stations on the evening of the 12th of July last year.
You join the other victims of the floods whose homes and lives were destroyed.
There is a growing belief that the flooding was avoidable if Thames Water had done its job.
The Rt.Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan
Chairman
The Association of British Insurers
One America Square
17 Crosswall
London EC3N 2LB
7th May 2022
Dear Lady Morgan,
On the evening of 12th July last year I was just one of the thousands of Central London residents whose homes were destroyed by floods of raw sewage.
The elderly and the vulnerable were particularly tragic victims. For many, mental and physical illness followed the flooding. For others, financial ruin.
According to Thames Water, the floods were the result of intense and unprecedented rainfall.
Thames Water has set up an independent review into the extent and causes of the flood. One member of the Review lives in Copenhagen; another retired living in Yorkshire!
Increasingly, questions are being asked about what really happened on that day. Victims are no longer accepting the Thames Water version of the cause.
Questions are being asked as to why certain equipment was not turned on, especially as when pumps were activated the sewage drained away instantly.
We are not the only victims. If the conjecture about the inactivation of pumps is accurate then your members and their shareholders are also victims of Thames Water’s negligence.
May I suggest that ABI members set up their own review of what happened on that fateful evening of 12th July?
Please respond by email should you wish.
Kind regards
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An excellently timed post. All Thames Water victims should send a similar email to Lady Morgan.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn’t a natural flood. It was TW dumping its raw sewage inside our homes. At the very least; it was gross negligence and we TW's victims, should not have to pay for it. It's cost insurers many millions. Insurance premiums have shot up. TW should be made to pay.
The damage was compounded by decades of failure by RBKC. For years, residents’ funds were spent on fifth rate opera rather than on environmental protection and fire protection in high rise flats!
Why id not Cllr Lindsay encouraging his group to write to Lady Morgan?
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ReplyDeleteIt’s an excellent idea for victims of Thames Water's flood to write old fashioned letters to Lady Morgan.
However, as I started to write one, I realised that I have neither a printer, paper nor stamps. Fortunately, the former still exists; locked away in a warehouse somewhere. Meanwhile I'm unable to buy a second printer. I’ll have to “borrow” one. Everything is a chore.
Unless and until one has suffered a similar catastrophe, one has no concept of its impact. Builders and new furniture are obvious; but there so much more.
For example, I lost 3 pairs of tweezers. In Boots they’re £20+ each. Replacement wallpaper is £100 a roll. Even for the insured, the additional costs are endless.
For those unable to afford insurance: their lives are ruined.