US EditionOregon jury orders PacifiCorp to pay $305M to wildfire victims in latest class-action verdict
Jury awards $305 million to 16 wildfire survivors in Santiam Canyon, pushing PacifiCorp's liabilities beyond $1 billion amid ongoing trials for thousands of plaintiffs.
- An Oregon jury ordered PacifiCorp to pay $305 million to 16 wildfire victims in a class-action lawsuit over the 2020 wildfires in the state.
- PacifiCorp has been ordered by juries to pay over $1 billion in damages to class members for negligently failing to cut power during a windstorm despite warnings.
- The 2020 Labor Day weekend fires killed 11 people, burned over 1,560 square miles, and destroyed thousands of homes in Oregon.
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Latest verdict tips PacifiCorp's wildfire liabilities above $1 billion in class action
Jurors in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Wednesday awarded an eye-popping $305 million in damages to 16 plaintiffs in an ongoing class action lawsuit against PacifiCorp related to four 2020 wildfires.
PacifiCorp now owes over $1B in Oregon wildfires class-action lawsuit
An Oregon jury has awarded $305 million to 15 wildfire survivors harmed by the Santiam Canyon wildfire that burned across hundreds of thousands of acres in 2020.This is the largest jury verdict issued in relation to the James v. PacifiCorp class-action lawsuit, pushing PacifiCorp’s total liability past $1 billion.PacifiCorp — the parent company of Pacific Power, Oregon’s second-largest electric utility — kept its lines charged over the 2020 Labo…
Major utility company to pay over half a billion dollars for extensive wildlife damages: 'Providing certainty for customers'
Electric power company PacifiCorp announced a $575 million settlement to resolve government claims that its negligence caused six wildfires in Oregon and California that burned over 290,000 acres of public land. What's happening? The Department of Justice announced the settlement in a news release. The most damaging of the fires was the Slater Fire, which burned over 157,000 acres in California in September 2020. The four Oregon fires occurred a…
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