The wife of a man who killed himself after his home burned down in the Palisades fire is among more than a dozen plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits blaming the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and other defendants for causing or hastening the deaths of their relatives. The lawsuits the first death-related litigation in the Palisades fire were brought last month under a pilot law, state Senate Bill 447,
The 4 July floods, which claimed more than 130 lives across the region and was described as some of the US's deadliest floods in decades, devastated the 99-year-old Christian all-girls camp, located on the banks of the Guadalupe river in Kerr county. Twenty-five young campers, two teenage counselors and the camp's longtime owner, Dick Eastland, died after flood waters inundated the property.