TRIBECA LAWSUIT LOANS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FROM PG&E FIRE VICTIM CLAIMANTS
iCrowd Newswire
27 May 2021, 00:25 GMT+10
CALIFORNIA, May 26, 2021 Tribeca Lawsuit Loans announced today that it has established a fund to pay advances on the claims filed with the Fire Victim Trust by victims of the devastating Camp, Butte, Paradise, and North Bay wildfires in Northern California that leveled whole towns and left thousands homeless.
In 2018, equipment owned by the power provider PG&E sparked the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The Camp Fire destroyed 154,000 acres, took the lives of 85 people, ravaged 20,000 homes, businesses and other structures, and forced evacuation of 52,000 residents. Damage was estimated at $16.65 billion, making it the world s most expensive disaster in 2018.
Frustration And Tears As Paradise Turns Out To Protest The PG&E Fire Victim Trust
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Survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire gather in Paradise, Calif. May 22, 2021 to protest runaway overhead expenses by the PG&E Fire Victim Trust.
Lily Jamali / KQED
By Lily Jamali
PARADISE, Calif. Teri Lindsay said she had no intention of speaking at a fire survivors’ rally that drew about a hundred people to the Skyway in Paradise Saturday. But as her daughter, Erika, stood by her side tears streaming down the young girl’s face Lindsay voiced her frustration at her family’s living conditions 2.5 years after the 2018 Camp Fire.
Western U.S. Wildfires Have Made Insurance for Contractors a Tough Buy
Things look bad with California’s ever-sooner wildfire season seemingly approaching and what’s shaping up to be a severe drought across the Western U.S.
The plague of wildfires in the past few years in California have made things tough for residents and businesses, and in the last few years, larger and more frequent wildfires have been particularly bad for utilities.
One business segment that’s getting some bad breaks are contractors that work for utilities or that work in wildfire-prone areas.
Contractors performing different classes of work in these wildfire-plagued geographies –vegetation management, utility-related work, infrastructure development – have seen rapidly accelerating insurance rates, and in some cases these businesses have been forced to decline work due to high insurance rates or a complete lack of available coverage.