This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation

May 27, 2021

PG&E agrees to pay public entities $43M over 2 wildfires

The Kincade fire was in 2019 and the Zogg fire was in 2020.

Less than eight months after initiating litigation, a group of Northern California public entities reached a civil settlement with Pacific Gas & Electric over damage suffered during the Kincade fire in 2019 and the Zogg fire in 2020.

The utility agreed to pay a total of $43.36 million to 10 entities, including the counties of Sonoma, Shasta and Tehama.

"We appreciate PG&E was able to resolv...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up