California homeowners could get payouts if utility company started fires
Newsweek: Victor Flatt, the Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law and the associate director of the Burke Center for Environmental Law, noted that Edison International faces scrutiny over the Eaton fire, which killed 17 and destroyed thousands of homes in Southern California. If found liable, the utility company could owe billions. “The state may have to step in,” he said, “to manage any transfer of the company's assets and/or to backstop the company financially.”
