Besieged Berkshire Utility Tries to Rewrite Who Pays for Wildfires

Article contentFive and a half years later, Cuozzo, 80, is still waiting for more than $6 million that was awarded by a jury that determined Berkshire Hathaway Inc. utility PacifiCorp’s equipment caused the fire. Cuozzo’s award is a tiny part of billions of dollars in damage claims that followed Oregon’s so-called Labor Day fires, which burned thousands of properties and rank among the state’s biggest and most destructive.“You know who owns PacifiCorp: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway,” Cuozzo said in an ...