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Berkshire utility tries to rewrite who pays for wildfires
Digital Insurance· 2026-02-27 17:28
(Bloomberg) --When smoke rapidly engulfed his home in Oregon, retired firefighter Fred Cuozzo rushed away in his pickup truck and nearly died from swerving around flames. All but one structure on his rural 16-acre lot was destroyed by the 2020 fire.Processing 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 do ...