CVN (March, 7 2024) — Portland, OR – An Oregon state court jury awarded $42 million on Monday to 10 plaintiffs who blamed electric utility PacifiCorp for their property damage in the Labor Day Fire of 2020, and the full trial was webcast gavel-to-gavel by Courtroom View Network. PacifiCorp could potentially face billions of dollars … Continued
AP (March 5, 2024) -— A jury in Oregon has ordered PacifiCorp to pay more than $42 million to 10 victims of devastating wildfires on Labor Day 2020 — the latest verdict in litigation that is expected to see the electric utility on the hook for billions in damages. Last June, a jury found PacifiCorp … Continued
KOIN (March 5, 2024) — Ten victims of the 2020 Labor Day Wildfires were awarded over $42 million in damages by a Portland jury on Tuesday amid a class action lawsuit against PacifiCorp. Tuesday’s verdict includes over $5 million in economic damages and over $23 million in non-economic damages, with both increasing by 25% for … Continued
LAW.COM (Feb 29, 2024) — A federal judge in California stayed lawsuits brought over 23andMe’s data breach, despite concerns raised by some plaintiffs lawyers about the possibility of continuing privacy violations. At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is overseeing most of the 35 lawsuits against 23andMe in the Northern District of … Continued
The Guardian (February 17, 2024) — The company pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums. Three years ago, a man in Florida named JL decided, on a whim, to send a tube of his spit to the genetic testing site 23andMe in exchange for … Continued
SFGATE (February 24, 2024) — Trial is scheduled for May in a case affecting millions of California drivers. The company says it did nothing wrong. If you drive a car in California, you may be in for a payday thanks to a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by a Texas company.The 2021 lawsuit, given class-action status … Continued
Top Class Actions (February 14, 2024) — Wendy’s agreed to a $18.2 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims that it collected worker biometrics without following Illinois privacy regulations. The settlement benefits current and former Wendy’s employees who worked at a corporate-operated restaurant in Illinois and scanned their fingerprint in a finger scanner between … Continued
Law360 (June 16, 2023) — …Edelson PC, Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter PC and Keller Rohrback LLP make this week’s list after an Oregon jury on Monday found the utility PacifiCorp was grossly negligent in causing a group of Labor Day 2020 fires, awarding at least $71.9 million to owners of properties devastated by the … Continued
Wildfire Today (January, 24 2024)- PacifiCorp will pay another $85 million to nine more victims of the 2020 Labor Day fires, after a jury in Multnomah County on Tuesday recorded the latest verdict in a series of lawsuits that means billions of dollars in liability costs for the Portland-based utility company, according to an AP … Continued
Seeking Alpha (January 23, 2024) – PacifiCorp, an electric utility owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B), was ordered by an Oregon jury to pay at least $62M to nine survivors of the Labor Day 2020 wildfires that swept through the state. The jury in Portland, where PacifiCorp is based, awarded the homeowners nearly … Continued
