2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (867+ words) This article reflects a summary of RT ECP’s Market Update, an analysis of environmental and construction-related professional liability trends by specialists, with perspectives from leading insurance companies writing these risks. Following are summary outlooks by line of coverage. This form…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (552+ words) An appeals court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Berkshire Hathaway’s PacifiCorp unit over a series of Oregon wildfires in 2020, saying a trial judge erred in letting litigation against the utility proceed as a class action. The decision by the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (689+ words) Los Angeles’ water and power utility is tapping the municipal bond market with its first offering since a judge ruled last month that the utility must face hundreds of lawsuits faulting its response to the devastating 2025 Palisades Fire. The Los…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (238+ words) PacifiCorp, a utility owned by Berkshire Hathaway, agreed to pay $575 million to resolve U.S. government damages claims related to six wildfires in Oregon and California that burned nearly 290,000 acres of federal land, the U.S. Department of Justice said this month. The settlement…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (182+ words) The water and power utility that serves the city of Los Angeles must face hundreds of lawsuits faulting its response to the massive 2025 wildfire that leveled one of the city’s premier seaside neighborhoods and caused tens of billions of dollars…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (411+ words) The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered two Houston, Texas-based construction companies and their owners to reinstate and compensate two workers who were fired for raising asbestos concerns during repair of a hotel after Hurricane Beryl. The department’s Occupational Safety … The…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (736+ words) Edison International sued Los Angeles County and other public agencies for allegedly failing to ensure timely evacuation alerts that the company says could have saved most of the 19 people who died in a massive wildfire last year. If the lawsuits…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago  (321+ words) A federal appeals court, one step below the U.S. Supreme Court, handed down two rulings in favor of employers and insurers, one involving black lung and one regarding a black delivery driver. In Keith McKnight vs. United Parcel Service, the U.S. 11th Circuit…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago  (479+ words) Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp says ongoing litigation from massive wildfires in 2020 that exposed the company to billions of dollars in damages is jeopardizing its ability to continue providing power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Oregon. In an…...