California Wildfire Lawyers

01/18/2025

A good read and great reminder that this is a time to HELP people, not solicit them! State Bar of California Warns Southern California Fire Victims to Beware of and Report Legal Services Fraud:

The State Bar of California is warning the public to beware of and report potential fraud in response to the fires in Southern California. For vulnerable fire victims who may need a wide range of legal advice, legal services fraud can be committed by nonattorneys, such as “notarios,” or by licen...

01/16/2025

We're gearing up to help victims of the Los Angeles fires and will soon have dates and times for a town hall meeting to answer insurance questions and more. If anyone has family or friends who have been impacted, please spread the word! We will be posting updates here.

01/05/2022

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article257054362.html?ac_cid=DM588499&ac_bid=-1458571239

06/16/2020

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article243571597.html?

The names were read aloud, their photographs projected on a courtroom wall, the victims of the deadliest wildfire in California history.

03/23/2020

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article241422451.html?

PG&E Corp. said Monday it will plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history.

03/17/2020

https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-approves-pg-es-23b-201103144.html

Pacific Gas & Electric on Monday won court approval to raise $23 billion to help pay its bills over destructive California wildfires after Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his opposition to a financing package designed to help the nation's largest utility get out of bankruptcy. The milestone reached du...

02/28/2020

PG&E Corp. agreed last fall to pay a record $1.675 billion penalty for causing deadly wildfires that swept through California wine country and destroyed the town of Paradise in 2017 and 2018. Now the state is asking for more.

02/06/2020

https://www.sacbee.com/article240041043.html

PG&E Corp. is operating a second potentially dangerous transmission line near the spot where the Camp Fire ignited in 2018, lawyers for wildfire victims announced Thursday.

12/07/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/climate/california-fire-insurance-climate.html

The state's unusual decision exposes the insurance industry’s miscalculation of the cost of climate change.

08/06/2019

Tubbs fire update: it wasn't caused by a private electrical system, after all. According to a new report "...freshly acquired security footage from Bennett Lane Winery shows the exact spot where the flash was spotted on the surveillance camera corresponds to PG&E pole 773, erected near the entrance to the Zink property. And, to add insult to injury, the left side of that same pole is still scorched."

The Tubbs Fire in and around Santa Rosa in October 2017 was deemed to be the only large scale Wine Country wildfire not caused by PG&E-owned equipment — but recently unearthed surveillance footage has CalFire investigators thinking otherwise.