LONGMONT, Colo. — A Longmont man says a dispute between his insurance company and a moving and storage company left him without his furniture for months while the bill kept increasing."Easter morning, I got up and in the basement, the sewage was backed up," he said."You don't want to say, 'Well, hang on. Let me take two weeks to get prices from everybody,' because your basement's full of sewage.
Landi believed the expense would be covered by his insurance policy and signed on with the company without discussing prices. Emails provided by Landi show that Travelers Insurance and The Contents Company went back and forth for months, arguing about the cost. The emails show that the Travelers adjuster insisted that $8,500 was a"fair and reasonable" payment for the move and less than two months of storage. The Contents Company's representative argued that the invoices were"fair and reasonable."While the charges continued going up, Landi's basement sat empty. He and his wife have been forced to take their laundry to a laundromat every week since the moving company took their washer and dryer.