Mediacom Withdraws FCC Pole Attachment Petition
Mediacom withdrew a request for an FCC ruling on pole attachments that the cable operator filed Feb. 19, 2014, in docket 14-52, it said in a filing posted there Friday. The petition for declaratory ruling was yanked because the underlying…
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wrongful death lawsuit against the pole owner, Interstate Power and Light (IPL), by the estate of a deceased Mediacom worker was recently settled, said the cable operator's lawyer, Craig Gilley of Mintz Levin, in an interview Friday. He said part of the settlement called for Mediacom to withdraw its petition. In 2011, a Mediacom employee working on a pole owned by IPL was injured and later died because of what the operator had said was the pole's structural failure. Mediacom had sought a clarification related to an indemnification clause in a pole attachment agreement between a cable operator and utility pole owner. IPL had asked the agency to make other clarifications. A lawyer at IPL parent Alliant Energy had no comment Monday.