Company: PCG-PB
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001004980-25-000087
Chunk: 79

Company: PG&E Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 79
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, 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 April 16, 2025, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of approximately 183 complaints on behalf of at least 8,687 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 has scheduled and vacated numerous bellwether trial dates, including the previously scheduled bellwether trial date of June 23, 2025.  As of April 23, 2025, there was no bellwether trial date scheduled. 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 and motion to strike 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 answer.  On April 7, 2025, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a petition for writ of mandate in the California First District Court of Appeal, seeking an order directing the trial court to reverse the ruling on Cal Fire’s demurrer and motion to strike.  On April 15, 2025, the Court of Appeal requested that Cal Fire file an opposition to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s writ by April 30, 2025.  The Court also permits PG&E Corporation and the Utility to file a reply to the opposition by May 9, 2025.On February 7, 2023, the Utility entered into a tolling agreement with Cal OES, extending the agency’s time to file a complaint.PG