Even though a Long Island resident made a "strong case" for $1,300 in damages for food spoiled when the Long Island Power Authority's highly criticized response to Hurricane Sandy left him without power last fall, a judge said the resident could not hold the utility liable because there was no "gross negligence."
District Court Judge Michael Ciaffa (See Profile) in Nassau County said that although the sufficiency of restoration efforts "have rightly been criticized" by a state commission and others, the utility's "negligence, however palpable, was not so 'gross' as to be actionable."
