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Oregon’s second-largest electrical utility, PacifiCorp, played a significant role in the Labor Day wildfires that ravaged parts of the state in 2020, according to a Multnomah County jury.

PacifiCorp must resolve its dispute with its excess insurers over litigation and remediation costs related to the Portland Harbor Superfund site in arbitration, a federal district court ruled.

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Ten survivors of the 2020 wildfires received a total of $44.1 million in the latest damages trial in the ongoing class action lawsuit against PacifiCorp.

PacifiCorp has asked the Oregon Public Utility Commission to limit future lawsuit awards against the company to “actual” damages for property and loss of life.

PacifiCorp reached a $178 million settlement with 403 victims of the 2020 Labor Day fires, the company announced Monday, while hitting an impasse with thousands of others.

PacifiCorp did have a plan for shutting off power for public safety during high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation in 2020, but company officials told The Salem Journal-Statesman they did not ...

PacifiCorp executives estimate the 2020 Labor Day Fires and 2022 wildfires caused by the company’s equipment in Oregon cost them nearly $2.7 billion.

Meanwhile, in Oregon, PacifiCorp may have to pay upward of $1 billion in damages to victims of the 2020 fires that its infrastructure was found to have started.

PacifiCorp is part of billionaire Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. The regulated monopoly utility operates in six western states, including Wyoming, ...

An Oregon state jury on Tuesday ordered PacifiCorp, an Oregon electric utility owned by billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, to pay at least $62 million to nine homeowners whose ...