Besieged Berkshire Utility Tries to Rewrite Who Pays for Wildfires February 27, 2026 By Michelle Ma and Alexandre Rajbhandari When smoke rapidly engulfed his home in Oregon, retired firefighter Fred Cuozzo rushed away in his pickup truck and nearly...
Berkshire’s PacifiCorp Paying $575M to Settle Claims for Oregon and California Wildfires February 23, 2026 By Jonathan Stempel PacifiCorp, a utility owned by Berkshire Hathaway, agreed to pay $575 million to resolve U.S. government damages claims related to...
Berkshire Utility Presses Wildfire Appeal With Billions at Stake February 5, 2026 By Michelle Ma Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp is asking an appeals court to throw out a 2023 jury verdict in a wildfire class-action...
Buffett Utility Reaches Oregon Wildfire Settlement With Nearly 1,500 Victims November 20, 2025 By Michelle Ma and Alexandre Rajbhandari Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp said it has reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 plaintiffs associated with the 2020 Labor...
Mounting Oregon Wildfire Claims Threaten Ratings of Berkshire’s PacifiCorp November 13, 2025 By Rachel Graf A Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.-owned utility is at risk of losing its investment-grade credit rating as it expects to have...
Buffett’s Oregon Utility Says Fire Lawsuits Pose Shutdown Risk September 8, 2025 By Peter Blumberg PacifiCorp says litigation massive wildfires in 2020 that exposed the company to billions of dollars in damages jeopardizes its ability...
Oregon Lawmakers to Introduce Bill Barring Utility Rate Increases Amid Unresolved Wildfire Lawsuits December 26, 2024 By Claire Rush Three Oregon lawmakers say they plan to introduce a bill that would bar utilities from raising rates if they have...
Buffett’s PacifiCorp Suspected of Collusion by Wildfire Victims’ Law Firms July 22, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel The law firms leading class-action litigation against PacifiCorp over the 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires in Oregon want to examine...
Buffett’s PacifiCorp Suspected of Collusion By Wildfire Victims’ Law Firms July 19, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel The law firms leading class-action litigation against PacifiCorp over the 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires in Oregon want to examine...
Berkshire Utility Settles 403 More Fire Claims for $178 Million June 5, 2024 By Rachel Graf Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp said it agreed to pay $178 million to 403 victims of Oregon’s 2020 Labor Day wildfires,...