Wall Street Backs Los Angeles Wildfire Lawsuits, Chasing Billions

These gorgeous housing designs could remake Los Angeles’s fire-ravaged neighborhoods

For the Los Angeles area neighborhoods devastated by January’s wildfires, rebuilding is a question of how, not if. A new effort involving 40 architecture firms from L.A. and beyond aims to broaden the scope of what that rebuilding looks like. Case Study 2.0 is a model home design program that is creating a catalog of preapproved and deeply discounted house plans for fire victims in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods. Combining the …

Wall Street Backs Los Angeles Wildfire Lawsuits, Chasing Billions

Funders offer loans to lawyers representing fire victims

L.A. fires updates: Death toll rises to 25 as crews search for missing people

Wildfires, lawsuits, and the unease settling over Los Angeles County

Los Angeles — It was barely evening when the Bethany Fire jumped the ridge above Burbank. By the time neighbors started knocking on doors, the sky was turning orange. “I didn’t even grab half my stuff,” said one woman, standing next to her car as ash drifted down. “It felt like we had no time.” […]

Wall Street backs Los Angeles wildfire lawsuits, chasing billions

The chance at a piece of strong returns has encouraged investment banks, hedge funds and debt investors to vie for contracts to fund the litigation, according to people involved in transactions.