Electric Company: Bryan Fears (right) majored in biology and planned to work on The Human Genome Project until it was mapped his senior year at Baylor. Instead, he went to law school and started his firm when he was 29. Patrick Luff joined after first working as a law professor. He had researched the use of courts as a corporate regulatory device while getting his doctorate at the University of Oxford.
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After the Fatal Winter Storm, This Law Firm Wants to Hold the Utilities Accountable
Utility companies have long been protected from liability for blackouts. After February s deadly winter storm, a Dallas law firm hopes to finally hold them responsible.
/PRNewswire/ Trial lawyers with the Fears Nachawati Law Firm are hosting two webinars for attorneys who would like to learn more about litigation over the.
Some Texans picking up the pieces after the winter storm have sued ERCOT. How likely are they to be successful?
Texans are looking for justice after losing power and heat during the winter blast, but can they get money from the state s power grid operator? Author: Niccole Caan (KENS 5) Published: 11:01 PM CST March 5, 2021 Updated: 11:31 PM CST March 5, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Many have filed property damage, personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT – the private, nonprofit group that manages the Texas power grid – after losing power for days during the February winter storm.
There is no clear answer on if these lawsuits will be successful or if they will even be allowed to proceed in the courts. The big question right now is whether or not ERCOT has what is legally called “sovereign immunity. If so, that means ERCOT may be protected from lawsuits.
Oncor Electric Delivery Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Blackout Preparation, Response
Lawsuit: Central Texas man endured deadly cold temperatures, had hypothermia, severe frostbite when found unresponsive in his home
We filed this lawsuit because Oncor failed to do its job. Because of these failings, good people like Elzie Ford were forced into a life-and-death struggle for survival.” Trial Lawyer Bryan FearsDALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, March 4, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ North Texas electricity provider Oncor Electric Delivery has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of a Hill County man who died after losing electricity and heat, and enduring single-digit temperatures in his Whitney home during the winter storm blackout.
Lawsuit filed over Alice man s freezing death
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ALICE, Texas â February s Arctic blast claimed a number of lives across the state including the death of a man inside his home just outside of Alice.
In a lawsuit filed on Friday, Melissa Villanueva says her live-in boyfriend Abelino Guzman was struggling to breathe and his skin was turning purple on February 16.
Their home was without power like millions of others across the state.
The lawsuit states that the temperature inside was approximately 32 degrees. It is a very, very difficult thing to see your loved one freezing to death and have nothing you can do about it,â an attorney for Guzman s family, Patrick Luff, said.