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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Attorney Michael Richardson of Hilliard Martinez Gonzales LLP has sued CenterPoint Energy Inc. on behalf of 28 apartment complexes for damages that occurred following the deadly winter storm and freezing temperatures that occurred on February 12, 2021 through February 16, 2021. Due to widespread power outages, the complexes sustained substantial destruction including burst pipes and water damage. As such, plaintiff apartment complexes, which contain 8456 units housing thousands of residents, sustained significant harm.
Despite publicly commenting that CenterPoint would engage in controlled rolling outages, the company allegedly failed to address the power failure in a reasonable and neutral manner. Moreover, had the rotating outages lasted just 15 minutes to more than an hour, as represented in CenterPoint s own press release, the resulting damage could have been avoided, the comp