On August 4, 2026, CAL FIRE and the L.A. County Fire Department released their Origin and Cause Investigation Report and Supplemental Report on the Eaton Fire. The report conclusively determines that the Eaton Fire was caused by electrical arcing events on an out-of-service Edison transmission tower on the Mesa-Sylmar circuit. According to the report, these
Our thoughts are with our clients and the Altadena and Pasadena residents as they continue rebuilding their lives and homes one year after the devastating Eaton Fire. We are honored to work alongside our courageous clients in seeking accountability for the damage to their homes, health, community, and environment.
Lieff Cabraser partner Lexi Hazam served as Co-Lead Counsel for plaintiffs in previous successful wildfire litigation against SoCal Edison relating to the 2017 and 2018 Thomas and Woolsey Wildfires Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announces that plaintiffs Gladys Rodriguez and Greg Lopez and their children LRL and LGL have filed an injury lawsuit in
As reported by the Daily Mail, Xcel Energy has admitted that its equipment likely played a critical role in sparking the Smokehouse Creek fire, now recognized as the most devastating wildfire in Texas’s recorded history. Since igniting last Monday, the blaze has ravaged over a million acres, claimed the lives of two people, and led
U.S. News & Best Lawyers has announced its “Best Law Firm” rankings for 2022. The listings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes “the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in the field, and review of additional information provided by law firms.” Lieff Cabraser’s Tier 1 rankings for 2022 are:
As reported by CNN, a newly released investigative report has determined that the 2018 Woolsey Fire was sparked by equipment owned and controlled by SoCal Edison. One of the largest and most destructive fires in Los Angeles history, the Woolsey fire burned more than 96,000 acres, destroyed 1,634 structures and caused three deaths.
The PG&E Fire Victim Trust announced today that it has been funded effective today. The Trust received the Fire Victim Trust settlement proceeds from PG&E which includes 476,995,175 shares of PG&E Common Stock and the first installment of cash funding of $5.385 billion ($5.4 billion reduced by previous court-ordered advances of $15 million) in accordance
A U.S. bankruptcy judge has approved Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s $59 billion reorganization plan, resolving a turbulent bankruptcy that started when the nation’s largest utility sparked a series of wildfires that killed more than 100 people, leveled entire California communities, and led it to plead guilty to over 80 separate counts of involuntary manslaughter.
As reported by The San Francisco Chronicle, facing blowback, PG&E has announced that it no longer intends to pay the criminal fines and expenses related to its negligence in the 2018 deadly Camp Fire with the funds from a trust intended to compensate victims.
Second set of criminal convictions in just five years places PG&E among the most criminally-convicted companies in US history As reported by The San Francisco Chronicle, Pacific Gas and Electricity Co. (PG&E) has agreed to plead guilty to 85 felony counts for its role in the 2018 Camp Fire, California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire