Company: PCG-PB
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001004980-25-000010
Chunk: 218

Company: PG&E Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 218
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) given the information available at the time and followed applicable policies and protocols both before ignition and in the day-of-event response.  While an intervenor in a future cost recovery proceeding may argue the Cal Fire Investigation Report itself creates serious doubt with respect to the reasonableness of the Utility’s conduct, PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not believe the report identifies sufficient facts to shift the burden of proof applicable in a proceeding for cost recovery to the Utility.  (See “Regulatory Recovery” and “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” below.)  PG&E Corporation and the Utility disagree with many allegations in the Cal Fire Investigation Report and plan to vigorously contest them.  However, if the CPUC or the FERC were to reach conclusions similar to those of the Cal Fire Investigation Report, it may determine that the Utility had been imprudent, in which case some or all of its costs recorded to the WEMA would not be recoverable, the Utility would not be able to recover costs through FERC TO rates, or the Utility would be required to reimburse the Wildfire Fund for the costs and expenses that are allocated to it.As of February 5, 2025, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of approximately 182 complaints on behalf of at least 8,681 individual plaintiffs related to the 2021 Dixie fire and expect that they may receive further complaints.  The plaintiffs seek damages that include wrongful death, property damage, economic loss, medical monitoring, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other damages.  The court had previously scheduled two trial dates for October 14, 2024 and February 24, 2025.  The court has vacated both of those dates and set a new bellwether trial date for June 23, 2025.The Collins Pine Company and a group of timber companies filed a complaint against PG&E Corporation and the Utility on April 10, 2024.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility answered this complaint on May 28, 2024.

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Cal Fire filed a complaint against the Utility to recover suppression and investigation costs on June 30, 2023.  The Utility filed an amended answer to the complaint on September 30, 2024.  On October 10, 2024, Cal Fire filed a demurrer to portions of the amended answer.  On February 7, 2025, the court issued a ruling sustaining Cal Fire’s demurrer and striking portions of the Utility’s amended