As legal aid and volunteer lawyers in Texas begin providing legal advice to thousands of Texans with Hurricane Harvey property damage, similar work continues in New York—nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard.
Melissa Luckman, director of the Touro Law Center’s Disaster Relief Clinic in Central Islip, New York, said the clinic has 125 active Hurricane Sandy cases and received 25 new referrals last week. That is nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey on Oct. 29, 2012 in what is the second-costliest hurricane ever.
