Photo: Pavón-Tony Buzzbee Family / Courtesy
TEXAS – A Conroe family filed a lawsuit for $ 100 million dollars against ERCOT for the death of his son of 11 years during the winter storm.
According to relatives of Christian Pavón, the little boy woke up dead on Tuesday after having spent a night without heating in the low temperatures inside a mobile home. The electricity went out to the Honduran family during the first Rotating outages scheduled by ERCOT that sought to prevent the complete outage of the state’s power grid. Conroe is located 30 miles south of Houston.
Renowned Houston attorney Tony Buzbee represents the victim’s family.
The lawsuit accuses ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which is responsible for monitoring the Texas power supply system, of “gross negligence” on the part of the electricity provider and operator. The lawsuit says the alleged negligence contributed to the boy’s death after the little boy had to spend hours inside his mobile home in freezing temperatures because power was lost.
The lawsuit says that Christian died of hypothermia and that the family demands more than $ 100 millions of dollars in damages.
It should be noted that the coroner’s office has not released the cause of death of the little boy.
ERCOT in a statement said it could not comment on the lawsuit.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of life in our community. For now we cannot comment on the pending lawsuit, “said the statement.
” We have not reviewed the lawsuit and we will respond at the right time… but we have full confidence that our operators made the right decision to avoid a massive devastating blackout at the state level, ”added the statement.
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