Toxic Mold News Special (My family's $300,000 loss to mold) radio special 2002

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• published: 26 Nov 2013
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This news program was produced in 2002 by KPFK in Los Angeles about my family's struggles living, raising children, discovering, documenting, and recovering from a rental house with hundreds of square feet of toxigenic fungi concealed behind walls, under the floor and on the roof. I recently found this in storage and feel it may save some of my YouTube viewers from going through what we did. I am not a doctor or lawyer -- please seek professional advice and assistance from qualified, certified professionals. The news program is about the following: My landlords (whose family was/is heavily involved in Burbank California politics) knowingly* concealed the mold to my family, those who lived before us, and the family they moved for a few months after our departure before City National Bank financed the purchase of the entire block the landlord owned on Olive Avenue. *(I placed a hidden camera that filmed their workers deliberately concealing mold that was so deep the wall collapsed with soggy rotted mold) Conveniently, promptly after purchasing the block, the bank had the roof REMOVED from our rental house to attempt to eliminate any further evidence of the "crime scene". At the time, mold was not a common topic of discussion, and I had to do my own research before hiring scientists and doctors as to why we were all so incredibly sick. Today, it would be a no-brainer because it is common knowledge. Back then, people and most US doctors looked at mold victims as if they had lobsters crawling out of their ears. Insurance companies like Farmer's could kick up their cowboy boots on a conference table and look me straight in the eye and say "mold comes from peanuts." Yes, that really happened. Scientific tests confirmed deadly levels of mold and mycotoxin exposure, but insurance at that time was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to avoid litigation while they re-wrote insurance policies to exclude mold coverage (rather than repairing the problem, protecting victims, and acting to delay the issue.) Today, thank God, almost everyone has at least heard that indoor mold can be an issue, but the smear and delay campaign of insurance still leaves many people in the dark on how to react to this issue. I proceeded to produce Toxic Mold Solutions, which remains one of the most impartial, non-alarmist, and scientifically accurate documentary series on the subject -- featuring 44 top scientists, physicians, mycologists, researchers and leading politicians on the subject of toxic mold. I sold the rights to the video series, but you can buy it on-line through various distributors on-line. Update: 10 years later: The Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2001 met with the most lobbying money of almost any bill at that time, and was essentially deflated so the insurance industry could re-write their policies. Toxic Mold Solutions continues to be a staple of knowledge for mold remediators and an accurate resource for scientists. My family was blessed with knowledgeable doctors and through several years of treatment were able to reduce the impacts of exposure. However, some conditions require additional treatment to this day. Dr. Ordog underwent a merciless politically motivated smear campaign targeted on him as the "Louis Pasteur" of mold and wet building exposure and in punishment for gaining settlements for mold exposed families. For my family's losses, we were offered a settlement from Farmer's insurance of paying legal expenses, but nothing for our losses or recovery. Our property was non-remediable and in 2003, I was forced to bring 2.5 TONS of furniture, family heirlooms, and anything that could not survive the 900 degree ten minute cleansing process that is indicated for the military level of mycotoxins coating and infused within our belongings. I was only able to save my video archive library in the hopes of digital duplication. I have spent over $10,000 in storage since 2000, and the library, which includes one of Cab Calloway's last performances (which I produced and directed), interviews with stars like Elton John, Bruce Willis, etc. The tapes and films in my life's work library, which remain highly toxic, will cost over $25,000 to transfer to digital media. The recovery has been long and hard, but filled with blessings such as the opportunity to reinvent reality TV for MTV, working on American Idol, Ellen, and a wide range of shows as you can see by visiting my website: www.richardarsenault.com My wife and I are in the finishing stages of our first autobiographical book, and will announce its publishing date shortly! It's not about mold. Radio Program produced by Katy Chen and Andrew Evans for KPFK Radio Copyright (c) 2003 All Rights Reserved

Toxic Mold News Special (My family's $300,000 loss to mold) radio special 2002

• Report rights infringement
• published: 26 Nov 2013
• views: 2696

This news program was produced in 2002 by KPFK in Los Angeles about my family's struggles living, raising children, discovering, documenting, and recovering from a rental house with hundreds of square feet of toxigenic fungi concealed behind walls, under the floor and on the roof. I recently found this in storage and feel it may save some of my YouTube viewers from going through what we did. I am not a doctor or lawyer -- please seek professional advice and assistance from qualified, certified professionals. The news program is about the following: My landlords (whose family was/is heavily involved in Burbank California politics) knowingly* concealed the mold to my family, those who lived before us, and the family they moved for a few months after our departure before City National Bank financed the purchase of the entire block the landlord owned on Olive Avenue. *(I placed a hidden camera that filmed their workers deliberately concealing mold that was so deep the wall collapsed with soggy rotted mold) Conveniently, promptly after purchasing the block, the bank had the roof REMOVED from our rental house to attempt to eliminate any further evidence of the "crime scene". At the time, mold was not a common topic of discussion, and I had to do my own research before hiring scientists and doctors as to why we were all so incredibly sick. Today, it would be a no-brainer because it is common knowledge. Back then, people and most US doctors looked at mold victims as if they had lobsters crawling out of their ears. Insurance companies like Farmer's could kick up their cowboy boots on a conference table and look me straight in the eye and say "mold comes from peanuts." Yes, that really happened. Scientific tests confirmed deadly levels of mold and mycotoxin exposure, but insurance at that time was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to avoid litigation while they re-wrote insurance policies to exclude mold coverage (rather than repairing the problem, protecting victims, and acting to delay the issue.) Today, thank God, almost everyone has at least heard that indoor mold can be an issue, but the smear and delay campaign of insurance still leaves many people in the dark on how to react to this issue. I proceeded to produce Toxic Mold Solutions, which remains one of the most impartial, non-alarmist, and scientifically accurate documentary series on the subject -- featuring 44 top scientists, physicians, mycologists, researchers and leading politicians on the subject of toxic mold. I sold the rights to the video series, but you can buy it on-line through various distributors on-line. Update: 10 years later: The Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2001 met with the most lobbying money of almost any bill at that time, and was essentially deflated so the insurance industry could re-write their policies. Toxic Mold Solutions continues to be a staple of knowledge for mold remediators and an accurate resource for scientists. My family was blessed with knowledgeable doctors and through several years of treatment were able to reduce the impacts of exposure. However, some conditions require additional treatment to this day. Dr. Ordog underwent a merciless politically motivated smear campaign targeted on him as the "Louis Pasteur" of mold and wet building exposure and in punishment for gaining settlements for mold exposed families. For my family's losses, we were offered a settlement from Farmer's insurance of paying legal expenses, but nothing for our losses or recovery. Our property was non-remediable and in 2003, I was forced to bring 2.5 TONS of furniture, family heirlooms, and anything that could not survive the 900 degree ten minute cleansing process that is indicated for the military level of mycotoxins coating and infused within our belongings. I was only able to save my video archive library in the hopes of digital duplication. I have spent over $10,000 in storage since 2000, and the library, which includes one of Cab Calloway's last performances (which I produced and directed), interviews with stars like Elton John, Bruce Willis, etc. The tapes and films in my life's work library, which remain highly toxic, will cost over $25,000 to transfer to digital media. The recovery has been long and hard, but filled with blessings such as the opportunity to reinvent reality TV for MTV, working on American Idol, Ellen, and a wide range of shows as you can see by visiting my website: www.richardarsenault.com My wife and I are in the finishing stages of our first autobiographical book, and will announce its publishing date shortly! It's not about mold. Radio Program produced by Katy Chen and Andrew Evans for KPFK Radio Copyright (c) 2003 All Rights Reserved