#Innewsoftheabsurd A landlord’s tenant and the tenant’s guests smoked methamphetamine in the rental unit. Testing found significant levels of methamphetamine residue in the unit and HVAC system. The landlord filed a claim for the resulting remediation, which Farmers denied under a Contaminants exclusion. The landlord then filed suit, asserting the loss was covered because it was caused by vandalism. #drugs #insurance #landlord #tenant #Oregon https://natlawreview.com/article/oregon-declares-meth-residue-contaminant-affirms-coverage-denial
@Victor I have a hard time imagining they could possibly have smoked so much meth that it actually left enough residue to pose any real hazard whatsoever.
I bet the surface residue levels were in the microgram/m2 range, which isn't enough to cause any real problems (except - and even this is super unlikely - perhaps in a case where someone is on such a crazy unsafe cocktail of medications that they're riding a razor's edge & any excess catecholamines could cause a hypertensive crisis).
@IrelandTorin Interesting points...yet, would you consider a meth user a responsible person in being careful about handling drug in a manner that would or would not contaminate area where it is being used? Don't know the specifics to lab results, i.e., concentrations, number of sampling points (at least two, room and HVAC), lab method used along with lab QA/QC...
@IrelandTorin Dang it. Don't want to go down a rabbit hole about hazardous waste contamination cleaning...as declared by landlord. Though, I started looking at cigarette smoke residue levels that are typically detected by nonsmokers when renting hotel room. As a nonsmoker...not a good time sleeping in the only available hotel room and it happened to be a "smoke" room. You really can't get rid of the smell.
@Victor no, lol, they're not gonna be responsible, tweakers are pretty much all ****ed in the head.
My point is that it'd take so much to contaminate a whole unit severely enough to pose any real hazard that... it just doesn't seem likely at all. Sure, it was probably contaminated, but I doubt the contamination was enough to pose any real risk. Someone was probably just being paranoid.
Even if there was enough contamination to pose a hazard, water soluble compounds can literally be washed off.