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Lawsuit filed over Alice man's freezing death and last updated 2021-03-03 23:19:38-05 ALICE, Texas — 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 ...

Leading Off (3/4/2021) Families sue, Oncor apologizes, and ERCOT fires its CEO. By Kathy Wise Published in FrontBurner March 4, 2021 6:31 am Families Sue Oncor. After the recent storms and power outages, Larry Ford found his 68-year-old father, Elzie Ford, frostbitten and near death at his home in Whitney. A neighbor had called on February 14 to say Elzie had fallen; later that night, the electricity went out. Due to road conditions, Larry wasn’t able to reach his father until February 19. Elzie was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Waco, where he died on the 20th. A new lawsuit filed o...

Two lawsuits filed this week in Dallas County blame Oncor’s dayslong power outages during the February winter storm for the deaths of a 68-year-old man...

ETN’s Jeremy G. Butler spoke with Dallas-based attorney Patrick Luff as his firm, Fears Nachawati, has filed suit against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the main body that manages the state's primary electric grid, is being sued for ignoring repeated warnings regarding the vulnerabilities in [...]