Family of 11-year-old boy who died in Texas deep freeze files $100 million suit against power companies

📆 2021-02-22 12:15 PM
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Texas power providers Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and Entergy Corporation have been hit with a $100 million lawsuit accusing them of gross negligence in the death of a child whose family suspects he suffered hypothermia when they lost electricity and heat in their mobile home during a historic cold snap. The mother of 11-year-old Cristian Pineda filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court, alleging the utility giants 'put profits over the welfare of people' by ignoring previous recommendations to winterize its power grid, which sustained an epic failure last week and left more than 4 million customers without heat and electricity as temperatures in some parts of the state plunged to single digits. 'Despite having knowledge of the dire weather forecast for at least a week in advance, and the knowledge that the system was not prepared for more than a decade, ERCOT and Entergy failed to take any preemptory action that could have averted the crisis and were wholly unprepared to deal with the crisis at hand,' the lawsuit states.

Maria Pineda found her son unresponsive the next day and called 911 while attempting CPR, according to the lawsuit.

"Our thoughts are with all Texans who have and are suffering due to this past week," the ERCOT statement continued. But the lawsuit -- filed on behalf of Maria Pineda and the estate of Cristian Pineda by attorney Anthony Buzbee -- contends that power was turned off for "those who were most vulnerable to the cold."

PHOTO: Maria Pineda watches a video of her son, Cristian Pavon Pineda, 11, playing in the snow for the first time, Feb. 18, 2021, in Conroe, Texas. Instead of informing customers, like the Pinedas, that the rolling blackouts would be prolonged, ERCOT sent out messages on social media for customers not to do laundry on Valentine's Day and to "unplug the fancy new appliances you bought during the pandemic and only used once," according to the lawsuit, which included an image of ERCOT's Valentine's Day social media post

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WONT EVER SEE THAT..

Good! Take the power companies for everything and bring Texas back on the national grid

Not a chance in hell of them winning a dime.

Good luck to them!

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