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

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

The family of 11-year-old Cristian Pineda, who died in his Texas home after the power was cut off, has filed $100M suit against power companies

abcnews.go.com

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.
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Cristian died on Tuesday in his family's mobile home in the Houston suburb of Conroe while sharing a bed with his 3-year-old brother under a pile of blankets in an attempt to stay warm, according to the lawsuit.

“This is a young man who died for no reason other than corporate decisions," the Pineda family attorney Tony Buzbee told ABC News on Sunday. "There are a lot of decisions that were made a long time ago that led to the death of this young man. That is unacceptable."

 

[ottumwrn in tx]

the parents should aoc and obozo because they are the killers

 

[ihawk in FWB]

the parents should aoc and obozo because they are the killers

Oit, WTF are you trying to say?

 

[SWIowahawks]

Breaks my heart thinking about a three year old and 11 year old cuddling under blankets for warmth, but this sounds like ambulance chasing by the attorney.

 

[praguehawk]

Oit, WTF are you trying to say?

Check the name. Spoof account.

 

[SIXERS24]

Biden shut down the pipelines blame him

The power going out happens all the time learn to be a parent

 

[artradley]

Oit, WTF are you trying to say?

Parody account

 

[ping72]

There’s a reason we have regulation.

There’s also a reason corporations hate regulation.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

Ah, can we take some guesses on who made the account? I’m sure @TomKakert could tell us but then he’d have to kill us.