Case Description
On April 8, 2022, Keller Rohrback L.L.P. filed a class action lawsuit against Avista Corporation for the damage to property caused by the 2020 Babb Road fire, which largely destroyed the towns of Malden and Pine City in Whitman County, Washington. The complaint alleges the fire was caused by the power company's negligence when wind toppled part of a diseased Ponderosa pine, which struck an energized power line that ignited a fire in Eastern Washington during Labor Day weekend of 2020. The lawsuit was filed in Spokane County Superior Court of Washington on behalf of Plaintiffs Kevin Van Dyke, Heather Van Dyke, and Gary Dean Cannon and a proposed class of other fire victims.
The plaintiffs bring this lawsuit on behalf of themselves, and a putative class initially defined as follows:
All owners or residents, as of September 7, 2020, of any privately owned real property that is wholly or partially within the boundary Babb Road fire, and which property experienced at least low soil burn severity during that fire.
If you lost your home or property due to the Babb Road fire, please contact us at (800) 776-6044, consumer@kellerrohrback.com, or by using the contact form on this page.