New Jersey
Last year I lost electric service to my home 15 times. I spoke to the electric company about it and they just explained the obvious facts that there are trees growing along the power line to my home and the limbs sometimes fall onto the wires disconnecting them. They offer to trim the trees, but it has a short term effect before the limbs grow back, fall off in the wind and I loose power again. Earlier in the year, a power outage on the coldest night of the year caused us to have no heat. My personal generator also failed and it took the power company several days to repair the power lines. When power was restored it caused over $4000 damage due to frozen pipes that burst, flood damage caused by the water, motor damage to my heating system, food spoilage, and the costs of repairs. I spoke to and wrote to the electric company to see if they would pay for the costs of repair but they claim they are not responsible for "acts of nature" that cause loss of electric service. This has been going on for over 15 years now and I am fed up with it! The company refuses to re-route the power lines away from trees and their answer to remedy the problem is to trim the trees back, but they never do an adequate job. Several times in the early past we had lost power over 50 times! When we lost power on Thanksgiving Day last year, which was a cold and windy day, we had our fill of the problem and I filed a law suit. Does anyone have any suggestions on tips to win this case? Thank you!
Last year I lost electric service to my home 15 times. I spoke to the electric company about it and they just explained the obvious facts that there are trees growing along the power line to my home and the limbs sometimes fall onto the wires disconnecting them. They offer to trim the trees, but it has a short term effect before the limbs grow back, fall off in the wind and I loose power again. Earlier in the year, a power outage on the coldest night of the year caused us to have no heat. My personal generator also failed and it took the power company several days to repair the power lines. When power was restored it caused over $4000 damage due to frozen pipes that burst, flood damage caused by the water, motor damage to my heating system, food spoilage, and the costs of repairs. I spoke to and wrote to the electric company to see if they would pay for the costs of repair but they claim they are not responsible for "acts of nature" that cause loss of electric service. This has been going on for over 15 years now and I am fed up with it! The company refuses to re-route the power lines away from trees and their answer to remedy the problem is to trim the trees back, but they never do an adequate job. Several times in the early past we had lost power over 50 times! When we lost power on Thanksgiving Day last year, which was a cold and windy day, we had our fill of the problem and I filed a law suit. Does anyone have any suggestions on tips to win this case? Thank you!
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