Alejandro-Ortiz v. P.R. Elec. Power Auth.

OPINION AND ORDER

SILVIA CARREÑO-COLL, United States Magistrate Judge.

Orlando Alejandro-Ortiz, along with his wife and their minor children, sued Defendant Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”) for its alleged negligence in causing the injuries he suffered when he came into contact with a low-hanging power line. At trial, PREPA’s defense was that it had not acted negligently and, even if it had, its own liability was precluded by Alejandro’s superseding negligence,1 which it said it could not have foreseen. After a jury trial, a verdict was rendered in favor of Plaintiffs. We now take…