Firm News Archive

Residents in Northern California allege that sparks from PacifiCorp’s high-voltage transmission lines and other equipment are what ignited the deadly McKinney fire last month near the ...

Victims of the McKinney Fire that destroyed homes and killed four people in Siskiyou County have sued the Oregon-based utility company providing power in far Northern California ...

A wildfire that killed an elderly couple and destroyed more than 200 homes near Ruidoso in April was caused by Public Service Company of New Mexico’s failure to properly maintain vegetation ...

Leading fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber filed a lawsuit against PNM Resources (PNM) alleging the utility company is responsible for the McBride Fires which were ignited by its ...

A Missouri man has filed a class action lawsuit against Bass Pro, claiming they refused to honor a lifetime warranty on socks he purchased. The lawsuit, filed this month by Springfield ...

A Missouri man is taking Bass Pro Shops to court over a pair of socks. Kent Slaughter filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that previously, when someone would return Redhead Lifetime ...

Kent Slaughter filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that previously, when someone would return Redhead Lifetime Guarantee All-Purpose Wool Socks, Bass Pro Shops would honor the ...

Seven years, two trials, and an $85 million verdict after a jury sided with the family of Lucky Phounsy. Now, Phounsy’s wife is calling for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to ...

The County of San Diego is now seeking to overturn the verdict in the Lucky Phounsy trial, according to two post-trial motions filed April 2022 in San Diego federal court.

Lawyers for San Diego County are seeking to wipe out a record $85 million jury award in a civil rights case or get a new trial because the jury verdict was “incurably infected with error” and ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. struck deals worth upward of $55 million with six counties devastated by wildfires on Monday, agreements that place the utility under five years of independent ...

After two months of negotiating, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s attorneys and Sonoma County prosecutors are due back in court Monday, possibly to announce an agreement that settles ...

Uber Technologies Inc. and a California driver must face a negligence suit filed by a garbage truck worker who was injured when a passenger opened their door into the truck, a state appellate ...

A California jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a man who suffered a mental health crisis and died when he was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015.

The ...

A California jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a man who suffered a mental health crisis and died when he was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015.

A federal jury returned a $85-million verdict against San Diego County this week, finding in favor of the family of a man who died after sheriff’s deputies restrained him during his 2015 ...

A San Diego jury has awarded $85 million to the family of a 32-year-old father who died after San Diego Sheriff’s Department deputies shocked, beat, and hogtied him in 2015, causing his heart ...

A San Diego federal jury returned a $85 million verdict against the county this week, finding in favor of the family of a man who died after sheriff’s deputies restrained him during his 2015 ...

The victims of the 2020 Slater Fire are suing the utility company that started the blaze. That’s after a tree allegedly hit a PacifiCorp power line and sparked the fire. The fire killed two ...

A new Siskiyou County lawsuit is on file tonight against California power utility PacifiCorp involving a wildfire that burned more than 150,000 acres in Siskiyou, Del Norte and Josephine ...

The victims of the 2020 Slater Fire are suing the utility company that started the blaze. That’s after a tree allegedly hit a PacifiCorp power line and sparked the fire.

Leading fire litigation firm Singleton Schreiber LLP has filed a lawsuit in Siskiyou County, Calif., on behalf of 42 plaintiffs alleging PacifiCorp caused the devastating Slater Fire in ...

A murder, an arrest, but no court case or conviction. There are claims that prosecutors in Riverside County knowingly kept an innocent man behind bars for allegedly killing a man more than a ...

A 56-year-old Dozier Street woman could be entitled to monetary compensation after a fire swept through her East Los Angeles duplex, destroying property and killing two of her pets.

Authorities in Imperial Beach continue to investigate a fire that swept through an apartment complex early Sunday, claiming the life of an elderly man, and leaving 10 others displaced.

Civil Rights lawyers from Singleton Schreiber seeking immediate action from Sheriff Gore to prevent the spread of COVID-19 inside county jails.

Brett Schreiber and Singleton, Schreiber, McKenzie, and Scott (SSMS) are changing the civil justice system for consumers by providing “Big Law for the Little Guy.” As one of ...

Pacific Gas & Electric could be the first company to access a wildfire liability fund established by the state over two years ago, intended to keep utilities solvent after causing major ...

Pacific Gas & Electric could be the first company to access a wildfire liability fund established by the state over two years ago, intended to keep utilities solvent after causing major ...

A day after state officials concluded that a tree falling into Pacific Gas and Electric Company power lines started the massive Dixie Fire last summer, the utility said millions of other trees ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company officials said they expect to lose more than $1 billion as a result of the Dixie Fire.

The utility has announced that it’s been subpoenaed by the U.S. attorney ...

Nearly 200 plaintiffs have filed a pair of lawsuits against PG&E, alleging the company caused the Dixie Fire, the second-largest wildfire in California history.

The utility is facing 31 charges, including 11 felonies, after the Shasta County District Attorney determined that PG&E was “criminally liable” for the fire.

Victims from the nearly 1 million-acre Dixie Fire still burning in Northern California have sued Pacific Gas & Electric amid suspicions that the utility’s equipment may have sparked the ...

As the Dixie Fire continues to burn two months after starting its devastating romp across five California counties, some of the people who’ve lost everything are suing Pacific Gas and ...

Two lawsuits claiming to be on behalf of nearly 200 plaintiffs have been filed, alleging that Pacific Gas & Electric equipment caused the Dixie Fire, a wildfire that began July 13 and became the ...

More than 200 victims of the Dixie Fire sued PG&E on Wednesday, two days after a federal judge grilled an employee about whether the beleaguered utility could have shut off ...

PG&E Corp. is being sued by more than 200 victims of the Dixie fire, adding to the potential wildfire liabilities confronting a utility that barely a year ago emerged from a bankruptcy case ...

Over 200 victims of the ongoing Dixie Fire are suing PG&E for wildfire liabilities. Attorneys filed a pair of lawsuits and stated in part that the utility failed to foresee fire threats and ...

Singleton Schreiber, which has tangled with PG&E for years over wildfire liability claims, said Wednesday it’s filed a pair of lawsuits against California’s largest utility over ...

Two lawsuits have been filed on behalf of nearly 200 people alleging PG&E caused the Dixie Fire, the second-largest wildfire in California history.

The filing blames several blown fuses and ...

The plaintiffs in the case filed today say they believe the Dixie Fire was caused by a Douglas Fir tree leaning into PG&E’s high voltage distribution line, which the blown fuses were designed ...

In addition to a pending criminal investigation and potential federal probation violations, PG&E now faces lawsuits in the massive Dixie Fire, which is approaching 1 million acres in size ...

Nearly 200 homeowners, renters and business owners are suing Pacific Gas and Electric, alleging the utility is responsible for losses they’ve suffered from the Dixie Fire.

The lawsuit ...

Two lawsuits have been filed on behalf of nearly 200 people alleging Pacific Gas and Electric caused the massive Dixie Fire which has burned nearly one million acres in five Northern ...

GREENVILLE, Calif. (KTXL) — Community members in Greenville are suing Pacific Gas and Electric, alleging the utility is responsible for the destruction of hundreds of homes and ...

San Diego is paying out $900,000 to an 82-year-old woman whose foot and ankle were crushed in a collision with a city fire engine that ran through a red light while headed to an emergency in 2018.

Come listen to how @brettscribe and his partners at @ssmsjustice have started one of the largest law firms in the state of California. They have taken the standard business model for ...