Jan. 13, 2026
Rising government risk exposes cracks in public liability funds
As multimillion-dollar payouts for police violence, infrastructure failures and civil rights violations surge, California's public liability funds are straining under risks their original designs never envisioned.
Yosi Yahoudai
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
J&Y Law
Phone: (877) 862-4317
Email: intakes@jnylaw.com
Most people have never heard of a public liability fund.
They do not appear on ballots. They are rarely mentioned at council meetings.
Yet these funds quietly decide who pays when a city injures someone, destroys
property or violates a person's civil rights. They are the hidden wallets of
local government risk, and they sit at the center of an increasingly urgent
question:
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