Watchdog Says FEMA Wrongly Released Survivors’ Personal Information March 26, 2019 By Colleen Long WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million survivors of...
Prosecutors Decline to File Criminal Charges against PG&E for Wine Country Fires March 13, 2019 By Steve Gorman An investigation into fierce wildfires that swept Northern California’s wine country in 2017, killing 46 people, found no basis to...
Wildfire Debris Removal Halted Due to Unstable Rain-Saturated Slopes March 11, 2019 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State officials have halted debris removal on Northern California hills scarred by a deadly wildfire because of...
PG&E Filings Show Key Power Line Safety Fix Delayed February 28, 2019 By Ankur Banerjee, Nichola Groom Shares of PG&E Corp. fell about 3 percent after federal filings showed that the power utility had delayed a safety...
California May Seek Insurance Policy to Help Cover Wildfire Costs February 19, 2019 By Don Thompson California should get insurance to help cover taxpayers’ costs in bad wildfire seasons, a solution that could help stem losses...
Discovery of Outdoor Stove at Deadly 2017 Wildfire Site Could Impact Liability January 7, 2019 By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and David R. Baker PG&E Corp. said a camp stove was found near one of two spots where California officials have indicated utility equipment...
Out of State Lawyers Launch Marketing Blitz to Represent Camp Fire Victims December 31, 2018 By Joel Rosenblatt In a conference room 13 miles from Paradise, California, Doug Boxer explains to survivors of the state’s worst wildfire why...
California AG Asked to Review PG&E’s Actions Considered a Crime December 7, 2018 By Mark Chediak and Kartikay Mehrotra California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was asked by a federal judge to weigh in on whether reckless operation of power...
PG&E Didn’t Cut Power Before Fatal California Wildfire November 29, 2018 By David R. Baker and Mark Chediak In the days before California’s deadliest wildfire erupted near a PG&E Corp. power line during a windstorm, the company kept...
PG&E Equipment Tied to Northern California’s Cascade Wildfire October 11, 2018 By Mark Chediak Sagging power lines owned by PG&E Corp. caused the fatal Cascade fire in Northern California last year, but no public...