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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

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Email: intakes@jnylaw.com

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Arthur Dermendjian

Prelitigation Managing Attorney
J&Y Law

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Rising government risk exposes cracks in public liability funds
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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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