Litigation
Mar. 15, 2013
Neutrals create streamlined process for resolving natural disaster cases
With cooperation from parties in a rash of suits in a 2007 fire, neutrals launched an unusual plan to get broader authority over the cases than what might be typical, allowing them to focus the scope of settlement talks.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
With more than 2,000 lawsuits filed by homeowners in the wake of the fires that ravaged San Diego County in 2007, attorneys for plaintiffs and San Diego Gas & Electric - whose power lines were blamed for starting some of the blazes - were concerned with how best to deal with such a large group of often disparate cases. The lead attorney for the public utility, Kenneth R. Chiate of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &...
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