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DIEMER & WEI, LLP 

Kathryn S. Diemer (#133977) 

100 West San Fernando Street, Suite 555 

San Jose, CA 95113 

Telephone: (408) 971-6270 

Facsimile: (408) 971-6271 

Email: kdiemer@diemerwei.com 

-andWILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP 

Matthew A. Feldman (pro hac vice) 

Joseph G. Minias (pro hac vice) 

Benjamin P. McCallen (pro hac vice) 

787 Seventh Avenue 

New York, NY 10019 

Telephone: (212) 728-8000 

Facsimile: (212) 728-8111 

Email: mfeldman@willkie.com 

 jminias@willkie.com 

 bmccallen@willkie.com 

 

Counsel for Ad Hoc Group of Subrogation Claim Holders 

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

In re: 

PG&E CORPORATION, 

 

 -andPACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC 

COMPANY, 

 Debtors. 

☐ Affects PG&E Corporation 

☐ Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company 

 Affects both Debtors 

* All papers shall be filed in the lead case, 

No. 19-30088 (DM) 

Bankr. Case No. 19-30088 (DM) 

Chapter 11 

(Jointly Administered) 

DECLARATION OF BENJAMIN P. 

MCCALLEN IN SUPPORT OF THE AD 

HOC GROUP OF SUBROGATION 

CLAIM HOLDERS’ MOTION FOR 

RELIEF FROM THE AUTOMATIC 

STAY 

Date: July 24, 2019 

Time: 9:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) 

Place: United States Bankruptcy Court 

 Courtroom 17, 16th Floor 

 San Francisco, CA 94102 

Objection Deadline: July 19, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

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I, Benjamin P. McCallen, declare as follows: 

1. I am a member of the Firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. I am counsel to certain 

members of the Ad Hoc Group of Subrogation Claim Holders (the “Ad Hoc Subrogation 

Group”). I submit this Declaration in Support of the Ad Hoc Subrogation Group’s Motion to Lift 

the Automatic Stay. 

2. Attached hereto as Exhibit 1 is a true and correct copy of the Joint Case Management 

Conference Statement, California North Bay Fire Cases, JCCP No. 4955 (Cal. Super. Ct. Oct. 22, 

2018). 

3. Attached hereto as Exhibit 2 is a true and correct copy of the California Dep’t of 

Forestry & Fire Protection, Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit, Investigation Report: Tubbs Incident (Jan. 20, 

2019) (the “Cal Fire Report”), as well as Attachment J to the Cal Fire Report. 

4. Attached hereto as Exhibit 3 is the Master Complaint for the Individual Plaintiffs, 

California North Bay Fire Cases, JCCP No. 4955 (Cal. Super. Ct. Mar. 12, 2018). 

5. Attached hereto as Exhibit 4 is the Master Complaint for the Subrogation Plaintiffs, 

California North Bay Fire Cases, JCCP No. 4955 (Cal. Super. Ct. Mar. 12, 2018). 

6. Attached hereto as Exhibit 5 is a true and correct copy of Nicholas J. Nauslar, John T. 

Abatzoglou, & Patrick T. Marsh, The 2017 North Bay and Southern California Fires: A Case 

Study, FIRE 2018 (Jun. 9, 2018). 

7. Attached hereto as Exhibit 6 is a true and correct copy of PG&E’s Response to the 

CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division’s 10/14/17 Questions (Oct. 17, 2017). 

8. Attached hereto as Exhibit 7 is a true and correct copy of the CPUC’s decision in 

Application of San Diego Gas & Elec. Co. for Review of its Proactive De-Energization Measures 

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and Approval of Proposed Tariff Revisions (U902E), Application 08-12-021, CAL. PUB. UTILITIES 

COMM’N (Issued Sept. 18, 2009). 

I declare under penalty of perjury of the laws of the United States that the foregoing is true 

and correct and that I would be competent to testify thereto if called upon to do so. 

Executed on the 3d day of July, 2019 at New York, New York. 

 /s/ Benjamin P. McCallen ___________ 

Benjamin P. McCallen

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