In what might be the very first decision for personal complainants versus an energy over a wildfire, a jury in Portland, Oregon, blamed PacifiCorp for a series of wildfires in 2020 and granted more than $72 million to 17 complainants demanding residential or commercial property damages.
The decision, reached late Friday and keep reading Monday by Mulnomah County Circuit Court Judge Steffan Alexander, according to protection by Courtroom View Network, consisted of about $67.5 million in noneconomic damages versus PacifiCorp, which runs Pacific Power and becomes part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. For a number of the complainants, the jury offered each of them more than the $3 million that Edelson’s Nicholas Rosinia requested in his closing argument.