Jury holds PacifiCorp accountable for 2020 Oregon wildfires, awards millions in damages.

PacifiCorp has been found liable for causing four of the Labor Day wildfires in 2020 that burned a combined 2,500 properties and upended countless lives in the Santiam Canyon, Lincoln City area, and southern Oregon. The 12-person jury found PacifiCorp negligent on all major counts, including gross negligence, for causing the Santiam, Echo Mountain, 242, and South Obenchain fires after a seven-week class action trial against Oregon’s second-largest utility at Multnomah County Courthouse. PacifiCorp could be ordered to pay even more by the time the second phase is completed.