Wary of personal injury claims, a British insurer has sought to impose a ban on the window boxes and flower pots by which inner-city residents have long sought to cheer up their high-rise flats. According to the Norwich Union company, outdoor plants above ground level at the Bow Quarter habitations in East London are an “avoidable event” and must be removed unless firmly fastened down, which it may not be possible to do in a manner consistent with historic-preservation regulations. “Rather than dropping on heads with their cargo of busy lizzies or geraniums, the main threat they pose to life and limb seemed to be people standing on them for support, or banging their heads on the boxes from beneath [per a spokesman for a safety group].” (James Moore and Roger Highfield, “Insurance firm bans window box ‘peril'”, Daily Telegraph, Oct. 26).
Window box menace averted
Wary of personal injury claims, a British insurer has sought to impose a ban on the window boxes and flower pots by which inner-city residents have long sought to cheer up their high-rise flats. According to the Norwich Union company, outdoor plants above ground level at the Bow Quarter habitations in East London are an […]
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