The utility lobby prevailed against the old folks lobby here. I’ve seen clients moved from rooms in nursing homes for reasons beyond their control. For some of immobile patients their only access to the outside world comes from their TV and their phone.

I’m not sure what use a statute is without a penalty. If not CUTPA then what? It’s not like they specified some fine.

Somewhere, some legislator(s) are telling the folks back home that they stuck up for senior citizens against cable companies. However, this is a dog with not bite.

I see the legislation as a fee shifting scheme. The legislature knows that the utility is going to get paid for the time, just not by the resident of the nursing home. The cost will be spread among young, able-bodied folks like you and other people reading your insightful blog.

I wouldn’t say that such a policy conclusion amounts to the type of “firmly-rooted” public policy that should invoke the draconian wrath of CUTPA.

I think the suits got it right. Have I done too much work for “the man”?