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A federal agency has launched a criminal probe into the role that PG&E’s equipment might have played in starting California’s largest wildfire of 2022, according to a regulatory filing ...

In a federal regulatory filing Monday, PG&E says one of its transmission poles has been seized as part of a U.S. Forest Service criminal probe into the Mosquito Fire that began earlier this ...

A lawsuit has been filed against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. alleging the utility company is responsible for igniting the Mosquito Fire. The lawsuit, filed by national fire litigation ...

Federal investigators have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment in a criminal probe into what started a Northern California ...

Californian utility PG&E was sued for causing California’s largest wildfire this year less than two weeks after it told regulators about a power line failure near the time the fire ...

A lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company was recently filed by Singleton Schreiber with the San Francisco Superior Court that alleges the company was responsible for the Mosquito ...

Leading national fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit, in San Francisco Superior Court, claiming PG&E is responsible for the destruction and/or damage to the ...

The beleaguered utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co. told state regulators Thursday that new leadership at the organization was yielding important changes, making Northern ...

PG&E Corp. was sued for causing California’s largest wildfire this year, less than two weeks after the utility told regulators about a power line failure near the time the fire reportedly ...

Fire officials say the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Watch Managing Partner Gerald Singleton speak about the Mosquito Fire.

A new lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court alleges Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is responsible for the destruction and damage of the Mosquito Fire in Placer and El Dorado counties ...

Fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed the suit in San Francisco Superior Court, saying the fire was ignited by the company’s utility infrastructure. Their lawsuit says PG&E is ...

Leading national fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) alleging the utility company is responsible for the Mosquito ...

Singleton Schreiber Files PNM Lawsuit Over McBride Fire 

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Residents in Northern California allege that sparks from PacifiCorp’s high-voltage transmission lines and other equipment are what ignited the deadly McKinney fire last month near the ...

Victims of the McKinney Fire that destroyed homes and killed four people in Siskiyou County have sued the Oregon-based utility company providing power in far Northern California ...

A wildfire that killed an elderly couple and destroyed more than 200 homes near Ruidoso in April was caused by Public Service Company of New Mexico’s failure to properly maintain vegetation ...

Leading fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit against PNM Resources (PNM) alleging the utility company is responsible for the McBride Fires which were ignited by its ...

A Missouri man has filed a class action lawsuit against Bass Pro, claiming they refused to honor a lifetime warranty on socks he purchased. The lawsuit, filed this month by Springfield ...

A Missouri man is taking Bass Pro Shops to court over a pair of socks. Kent Slaughter filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that previously, when someone would return Redhead Lifetime ...

Kent Slaughter filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that previously, when someone would return Redhead Lifetime Guarantee All-Purpose Wool Socks, Bass Pro Shops would honor the ...

Seven years, two trials, and an $85 million verdict after a jury sided with the family of Lucky Phounsy. Now, Phounsy’s wife is calling for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to ...

The County of San Diego is now seeking to overturn the verdict in the Lucky Phounsy trial, according to two post-trial motions filed April 2022 in San Diego federal court.

Lawyers for San Diego County are seeking to wipe out a record $85 million jury award in a civil rights case or get a new trial because the jury verdict was “incurably infected with error” and ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. struck deals worth upward of $55 million with six counties devastated by wildfires on Monday, agreements that place the utility under five years of independent ...

After two months of negotiating, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s attorneys and Sonoma County prosecutors are due back in court Monday, possibly to announce an agreement that settles ...

Uber Technologies Inc. and a California driver must face a negligence suit filed by a garbage truck worker who was injured when a passenger opened their door into the truck, a state appellate ...

A California jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a man who suffered a mental health crisis and died when he was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015.

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A California jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a man who suffered a mental health crisis and died when he was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015.

A federal jury returned a $85-million verdict against San Diego County this week, finding in favor of the family of a man who died after sheriff’s deputies restrained him during his 2015 ...

A San Diego jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a 32-year-old father who died after San Diego Sheriff’s Department deputies shocked, beat, and hogtied him in 2015, causing his heart ...

A San Diego federal jury returned a $85 million verdict against the county this week, finding in favor of the family of a man who died after sheriff’s deputies restrained him during his 2015 ...

The victims of the 2020 Slater Fire are suing the utility company that started the blaze. That’s after a tree allegedly hit a PacifiCorp power line and sparked the fire. The fire killed two ...

A new Siskiyou County lawsuit is on file tonight against California power utility PacifiCorp involving a wildfire that burned more than 150,000 acres in Siskiyou, Del Norte and Josephine ...

The victims of the 2020 Slater Fire are suing the utility company that started the blaze. That’s after a tree allegedly hit a PacifiCorp power line and sparked the fire.

Leading fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber LLP has filed a lawsuit in Siskiyou County, Calif., on behalf of 42 plaintiffs alleging PacifiCorp caused the devastating Slater Fire in ...

A murder, an arrest, but no court case or conviction. There are claims that prosecutors in Riverside County knowingly kept an innocent man behind bars for allegedly killing a man more than a ...

A 56-year-old Dozier Street woman could be entitled to monetary compensation after a fire swept through her East Los Angeles duplex, destroying property and killing two of her pets.

Authorities in Imperial Beach continue to investigate a fire that swept through an apartment complex early Sunday, claiming the life of an elderly man, and leaving 10 others displaced.

Civil Rights lawyers from Singleton Schreiber seeking immediate action from Sheriff Gore to prevent the spread of COVID-19 inside county jails.

Brett Schreiber and Singleton, Schreiber, McKenzie, and Scott (SSMS) are changing the civil justice system for consumers by providing “Big Law for the Little Guy.” As one of ...

Pacific Gas & Electric could be the first company to access a wildfire liability fund established by the state over two years ago, intended to keep utilities solvent after causing major ...

Pacific Gas & Electric could be the first company to access a wildfire liability fund established by the state over two years ago, intended to keep utilities solvent after causing major ...

A day after state officials concluded that a tree falling into Pacific Gas and Electric Company power lines started the massive Dixie Fire last summer, the utility said millions of other trees ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company officials said they expect to lose more than $1 billion as a result of the Dixie Fire.

The utility has announced that it’s been subpoenaed by the U.S. attorney ...

Nearly 200 plaintiffs have filed a pair of lawsuits against PG&E, alleging the company caused the Dixie Fire, the second-largest wildfire in California history.

The utility is facing 31 charges, including 11 felonies, after the Shasta County District Attorney determined that PG&E was “criminally liable” for the fire.