Tenaris Wants Negligence Verdict in Flooding Case Undone

The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday morning was told there isn’t enough evidence that the construction of a pipe manufacturing plant in rural Matagorda County was the cause of flooding that damaged several neighboring homes during Hurricane Harvey. 

Mark Little of Baker Botts represents Tenaris Bay City, which in 2013 transformed the field that had been a grass farm into a manufacturing facility. Little argued that the expert witness for the 30 plaintiff homeowners in Van Vleck and Bay City had not offered any testimony on “but-for causation” of the flooding and was “quite candid” in telling jurors about “what he did and did not do” when assessing the incident.