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Civil Litigation

Aug. 15, 2023

Cellphone snaps make Maui litigation easier, as first suits filed

Alexander “Trey” Robertson IV of Robertson & Associates LLP and Robert Curtis of Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis LLP represent thousands of victims of utility-caused wildfires in California and Oregon, and were among the first to file a claim in the Maui matter.

Determining the cause of the Lahaina wildfire on Maui and where it started should prove easier than identifying that same information in the California wildfires of 2017 and 2018, said an attorney who is among the first to file a claim related to the Hawaii inferno.

“The start of the Lahaina fire was witnessed and documented by multiple eyewitnesses with cellphones. With social media you have dozens and dozens of videos of the origin of the...

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