A fast-moving blaze fueled by intense Santa Ana winds sweeping through multiple foothill neighborhoods in Southern California has destroyed more than 90 homes and burned upwards of 20,000 acres. Thousands of residents have been forced to evacuate in the face of multiple fire lines, and the Mountain fire remains largely uncontained. If you have been impacted by this continuing catastrophe, you are not alone, and Keller Rohrback wants to help.
We are elated to share the news that the significant verdict reached by a Portland jury in the 2020 Oregon fires case was selected by the Courtroom View Network as the first in its Top 10 list of most impressive plaintiff verdicts for 2023.
In the second trial set to determine damages for individual victims of the 2020 Labor Day fires that devastated Oregon, a jury in Portland has awarded 10 survivors $42.4 million in economic, non-economic, and punitive damages springing from PacifiCorp’s liability for the blazes.
A jury in Portland, Oregon awarded approximately $84 million in compensation from PacifiCorp to nine survivors of the fires that swept across Oregon on Labor Day 2020.
