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November 9, 2012 08:18 pm PST

Can Sandy victims sue power companies for extended outages?

Short version: yes, but it's not easy. "To win, New York ratepayers have to show that their power company was not just slow or inefficient. Instead, Kreppein said, under a 1985 New York Court of Appeals ruling calledStrauss v. Belle Realty, electric company customers must establish that the utility was grossly negligent that its [...]


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