Watts Guerra LLP, Fears Nachawati PLLC, and Parker Waichman LLP, three national law firms that have long fought to protect the rights of victims injured by the wrongdoing of large corporations, filed a wrongful death lawsuit on February 22, 2021 against Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ("ERCOT") and CenterPoint Energy, Inc. in District Court, Harris County, Texas on behalf of Linda Brown, a Harris County resident and the daughter of Doyle A. Austin, also of Harris County. Mr. Austin died in his home of hypothermia as a direct result of the power outage, which deprived him of heat during the frigid temperatures associated with Winter Storm Uri. The lawsuit alleges that failures by ERCOT and CenterPoint Energy, Inc. to anticipate increased energy demand during the storm and weatherize and update their facilities resulted in the rolling blackouts which left millions of Texans, including Mr. Austin, without power for days.