and Claims Administrator Cathy Yanni. It is an important development for fire survivors, and I share the press releaseissued today for more details. Most importantly, the bankruptcy does not prevent individuals and families impacted by the North Bay and Camp fires from asserting their right to compensation against PG&E. https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1609310956794019840. In a letter to fire victims in April, fund trustee John Trotter said it had retained Richmond, Virginia-based BrownGreer to process claims and that the firm has 300 staff members committed to this project, including attorneys, project managers, analysts, claim reviewers, and software developers.". This was followed on August 3, 2020, with an additional 748,415 shares. I think that is a positive for the trust and the fire victims, Crowder said on Wednesday afternoon. Furthermore, Gov. As Governor Newsoms office stated in a letter to the U.S. Without all your input I have no idea how we could have recovered. hbbd```b``3@$SXd:L|:TJ D2E,yd2c4(SGX&>`YZL L`]df|0 ` If you're on the ABC7 News app, click here to watch live, Videos show parade of storms toppling trees across SF Bay Area, The warning signs your tree may fall during next storm, 18 killed in helicopter crash near Kyiv, Ukraine, including children. The shares have lost 15% of their value in a month. In that rubble Internicola says he found the only item that survived, a ring his father gave him. Trustee appointed 11 fire victims to serve on an official committee of tort claimants. An unidentified spokesman for the Fire Victim Trust told KQED the fund has now increased its payments to families, putting $195.2 million into the hands of those who lost loved ones, homes and businesses to fires caused by PG&E. He said the trust had begun to make partial payments to about 9,500 of the 67,170 victims. San Francisco Chronicle. Primarily, those debts and liabilities relate to wildfire claims. Her office says it's currently in the Finance Committee. As PG&E Fire Victim Trust Racks Up $51 Million In Fees, Survivors Wait For Help While fire victims waited, a special PG&E Fire Victim Trust in charge of compensating survivors racked up $51 million in overhead costs last year. Newsom. That price created a shortfall of approximately $2.4 billion less than expected, and it has lingered between $10 and $12 and closed at $9.78 as of Friday, June 17, 2022.. Thats why theyre called trusts., Visalia Times-Delta | Tulare Advance Register, Just hours before the Idaho murders, another grisly scene unfolded outside Bryan Kohberger's window, Polar bear kills woman, boy in remote Alaska village, Hawaii fisherman overboard, missing after hooking large ahi, Reality TV star Julie Chrisley reassigned from Florida prison to federal medical center, The rich and powerful flocked to Davos via private jet to discuss climate change, study finds, How a comedian and Air Force spouse are helping feed military families, How to make cheeseburger dumplings with the Dumpling Mafia, JetBlue plane bumps into another aircraft in JFK Airport's gate area. 7305 to amend IRS Code of 1986 for certain fire survivors' claimants. Legislation could make PG&E settlement money for CA wildfire victims tax-free from the federal government, but the bill is stuck in Congress. Contacts For Fire Victims and Attorneys, Throwback OCP&R Tip: storms can cause power outages. All local city and county governments, large financial Hedge Funds that were investors in PGE, PGE and its attorneys, and the victims lawyers are and have been paid in full and quickly from the PGE bankruptcy $55 billion dollar settlement. (2021, June 25). The trust owns about 24% of the companys This increase was made possible by the Trusts cumulative sales of 190 million shares of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) stock since October 2022. Representatives for the Fire Victim Trust declined to be interviewed. An annual report filed in federal bankruptcy court last week by its trustee, John Trotter, reported $38. 7 million spent on financial professionals, claims administrators, consultants and other operating expenses between July 1 and the end of 2020. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. In November 2020, the FVT decided to begin providing claimants who had submitted the required Claims Questionnaires with preliminary payments of up to $25,000. Https://Leginfo.Legislature.ca.Gov/Faces/billTextClient.Xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1054 Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1054, (6) Woodrow, M. W. (2022, February 23). Most of the PG&E fire lawsuits are contingent fee lawsuits which means that the attorney fees cannot be excluded from the gross award ( Comm v Banks ). It is surprising to me that the enormous task managing a $13.5 billion trust would go to an octogenarian in the twilight years of his life, let alone his professional career, addressing the adjudication of settlements for 68,870 victim families and businesses. Legal claims arising out of the 2017 North Bay Fires and the 2018 Camp Fire will now proceed to resolution through the bankruptcy court rather than the civil courts. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/05/17/a-cascade-of-outrage-follows-investigation-into-pge-fire-victim-trust-expenses/, (5) California Legislative Information. Wednesday January 18, 2023 PG&E filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 29, 2019. The material on this site is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for legal advice. 0 All such claims must still be filed on an individual basis. Trust announced the sale of 60 million shares of PG&E stock, resolution of the 10th The deal was structured to avoid having to pay taxes on the sale, authorities said. 141 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<5282CBEF541C3F44B3C7ABABD9F0131F><7AF137A6936E014296BF315C2A3AFEF3>]/Index[115 39]/Info 114 0 R/Length 117/Prev 236867/Root 116 0 R/Size 154/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream The new payout, effective Feb. 15, will allow victims to gain 45% of claim value, instead of the current 30%. We are part of a significant group of voters. You brought an important and unique perspective to the hearing, that of homeowners themselves., Whenever I felt confused about any topic I first looked it up in the yellow book. Any sale, disposition or other transaction involving the Trusts shares follow strict guidelines as outlined in filings with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Fire Victim Trust was set up to compensate 67,000 victims as part of a bankruptcy settlement. Large and damaging wildfires were started by PGEs negligence that began with the 2015 Lake County wildfire and continued with the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 wildfires that scorched Northern California, destroying the homes and property of 68,870 families and businesses. The victims approval of the bankruptcy deal ($13.5 half in cash and half in PG&E stock) which by itself was unprecedented, that is, that victims would have to take a stock from its defendant for half of their settlement. (2021a, May 17). Https://Www.Pbs.Org/Newshour/Show/Most-Fire-Victims-Are-Still-Waiting-to-Be-Paid-by-Pges-Fire-Victim-Fund-Investigation-Finds Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/most-fire-victims-are-still-waiting-to-be-paid-by-pges-fire-victim-fund-investigation-finds, (9) Trust Distributed $1.69B to PG&E California Fire Victims in 2021. Read the responses here. Californian utility PG&E (PCG.N) last year earmarked around $6.8 billion of its equity for people who had experienced losses from wildfires it helped to cause. PGE stock is currently trading around $12 per share (currently a $1 billion loss to the victims' PGE shares) and it must trade at about $14.50-plus per share for the victims' stock value to equal $6.75 billion. and Cathy Yanni appointed Trustee and Claims Administrator of the Fire Victim Trust (FVT), Bankruptcy Court confirmed PG&Es Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization, FVT established and funded with $5.4 billion cash and PG&E stock, FVT began accepting claims information on FVT Portal, FVT began issuing Preliminary Payments to Fire Victims, Original Claims Questionnaire filing deadline (later extended to 2/26/21), $758 million cash payment received from PG&E, Claims Questionnaire filing deadline (extended from 12/31/20), FVT began issuing Pro Rata Payments to Fire Victims, $592 million cash payment received from PG&E, Cathy Yanni becomes Trustee of the Fire Victim Trust. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.kqed.org/news/11891626/hedge-funds-cash-out-billions-in-pge-stock-fire-survivors-suffer-and-wait, (2) Trust Distributed $1.69B to PG&E California Fire Victims in 2021. All Rights Reserved. As of a week ago, the trustee had paid $4.05 billion to more than 46,000 victims. At the time, before the vote of approval by the victims, several the victims lawyers concurred that it was a good deal and victims would be paid right away. This petition requests that Gov. Trustee appointed 11 fire victims to serve on an official committee of tort claimants. If a Disaster Declaration is issued, it can be either a Emergency Declaration (to supplement state, local, and tribal government efforts to provide debris removal and emergency protective measures or to lessen/avert, Need a last minute holiday gift? @TheDaraKam is back in the Terracotta Room talking about property insurance, this week with consumer advocate Amy Bach, executive director of @UPHelp John K. Trotter (ret.) I have heard firsthand the concerns survivors have faced when navigating the ambiguous tax code. To download an extensive set of FAQs, click here. Searchable Archives are available to subscribers, back through the year 2000. The trust has paid out $1.88 billion to date to more than 35,000 victims, and the new influx will allow that payment to swell to about $2.5 billion. As of March 15, PG&E had paid out $3.04 billion in preliminary and pro-rata payments and awarded another $7.04 billion in determination notices. On November 15, 2022, the Trustee posted responses to fire survivors' questions submitted during a recent meeting hosted by Sonoma County Supervisors Susan Gorin and James Gore. (2021, October 11). Once they were able to resolve that issue with help of its lawyers, Brown Rudnick, the trust was able to gain another $100 million by having to avoid that capital gains tax, Trotter said. However, that tweaks failure to reduce the need of central bank intervention has left the BOJ with little appetite for more compromises. And our family of five did much of the heavy lifting gathering, researching lost items costs, and spreadsheeting in detail our real and personal property claims which in most cases was to no avail, as the Trust ended up not paying over 40% of our bona fide claims. Claimants (or their lawyers, if represented) can access their confidential claims information, notices, and other program materials by logging into their secure Portal account here. federal and state agency claims. As noted, Judge Montali is also an octogenarian at 81 years of age and was recently appointed again for another 14-year term as a U.S. bankruptcy judge in April of 2021, meaning hell be 95 when this term of service expires. If you have previously retained an attorney for your wildfire claim, you do not need to take any further action. California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced companion legislation in the Senate. These individual victims should not be left to fend for themselves in a creditor class outnumbered by sophisticated and deep-pocketed financial institutions and insurance companies.. (8), In fact, the funds earmarked for wildfire disaster victims have first, quickly and more than fairly gone to the unwieldy and ineffectively operated PG&E Fire Victim Trust bureaucracy, (with excessive fees paid to the Trust managers and consultants); to the insurance companies that received full reimbursement of their homeowner insurance subrogation claim payments, and; complete payouts and large stock bonuses to the Hedge Funds for accepting the bad (half-stock) deal they all agreed to offer to the wildfire victims. The Trust issues Determination Notices daily and issues payments twice a month. Whether you are traveling, We support the Federal Insurance Office in their efforts to gather national data to get a clear picture of how insurers are adapting their operations in response to climate change, and how their actions are impacting property insurance affordability and availability across the nation.. When recently challenged by a letter from the Butte County Board of Supervisor's who presented legitimate questions about the pace and process of the Trust's claims processing, the thin-skinned Trustee refused to respond to the Supervisors and called them "you people" "politicians" with "uninformed, slanderous conclusions". (12,19). Check out Bay Area safety tracker, Bay Area Life; Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on ABC7, Fire Victim Trust answers questions about $51 million spent as CA wildfire victims await payments. It is an important development for fire survivors, and I share the. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali and is being implemented by PGE Fire Victim Trust Trustee John Trotter who suddenly retired this week. In a bankruptcy settlement, claimants may not ultimately receive the full value of their claims, but they must all receive the same proportionate pro rata value. Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) made no adjustments to its yield-curve control (YCC) policy that keeps interest rates ultra-low on Wednesday. Additional rounds of pro rata payments will follow until the fund is depleted. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2022/05/06/666497.htm, (10) ALLYN, J. The family knew they wanted to rebuild. A total of 71,394 Fire Victims filed claims by the February 26, 2021, deadline. California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Christopher and Urmila - 2017 Tubbs Fire Victims, FEMA can help California communities recover under the Stafford Act, Home insurance availability, affordability AND quality is shrinking: States and the Feds must coordinate and take action to protect homeownership in the US. So, if you receive $100,000 and give 25% to your attorney, you are still taxed on the full $100,000. We have a trustee who is making $150,000 a month, a top claims administrator is making $1,250 an hour. The legislation would exempt wildfire payouts from income taxes and would allow attorney fees and court costs to be deducted from taxes, right now they are not. The investigation by KQED found that in its first year of operation, the trust spent nearly 90% of its funds on overhead while fire victims, many of whom lost their homes, waited for reimbursement. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali and is being implemented. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, the U.S. Once PG&E filed for bankruptcy, however, the civil lawsuits were automatically stayed (or paused). (4), And the legions of lawyers and consultants from the Greenberg law firm in North Carolina (who Trustee Trotter hired) are surely making handsome consulting fees, though the Trustee keeps these fees close to his chest wonder why? The PGE Fire Victim Trust was created by Judge Dennis Montali to manage the adjudication and distribution of the wildfire victims' $13.5 billion settlement from PGE that was awarded to the victims' by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Take a look at more stories by the ABC7 News I-Team. He said their first task was to design a system that allowed 70,000 fire victims to make claims, which he said took time to create and make it capable of receiving and reviewing more than 250,000 unique claims. Since then Trotter said they have received more than 19,000 personal injury claims and more than 400 death claims. Fire Survivors Suffer and Wait. Sign up for NBC Bay Areas Housing Deconstructed newsletter. And, to date 35% of the 68,870 of the wildfire victims still wait for what bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali proclaimed would be quick and fair settlement payments to all victims. Victims of past fires share PG&Es risk, though, too. KQED analyzed federal bankruptcy court filings, court transcripts and correspondence between victims and staff of the Fire Victim Trust. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/They-need-help-now-In-Gold-Country-PG-E-16407001.php, (12) Andrew Graham. While Gallagher has said that he isnt supportive of taxpayers picking up the bill on the shortfall, he wants to see his legislation passed exempting settlement payments from state income taxes, which he says is one of his highest priorities. Prior Trustee updates are included on the Documents page here. ABC7News. San Francisco, CA Cathy Yanni, Trustee of the Fire Victim Trust (FVT), announced a pro rata payment increase from 45 percent to 60 percent effective January 31, 2023. And all of the victim attorneys (with just a couple of exceptions) said at the time that this was the best deal the victims could probably get, and if we rejected it, PG&E could file for Chapter 7 and we could lose almost everything and it could take years for that to happen. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A trust approved by a federal judge to help compensate victims of deadly California wildfires sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric equipment paid This is different from a class action lawsuit. The trust owns about 24% of the companys shares, worth around $4 billion. Please fix it. On September 29th, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill which will make PG&E wildfire victims' settlement payments state tax-free, but as of right now fire victims must still pay federal taxes on the award money. As to the victims payouts, to date (May 27, 2022), about 65% of the victims have received pennies on the dollars for their losses with 35% of the victims still waiting for a first pro rata payment, with most victims challenging their settlement determinations as unfair and underpaid as determined by the hundreds of Trust managers and staff, who incidentally are paid much more than fairly on time each and every month. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://abc7news.com/pg-e-fire-victims-victim-trust-fund-ca-wildfire-not-paid-taxpayer/11593929/, (7) Jamali, L. J. Congressman LaMalfa says the IRS took 5 months to get back to lawmakers about how fire victims who received PG&E settlement money should file their taxes so they wouldn't overpay or underpay and be facing penalties or fines. "I think scheduling for committee time, floor time," said LaMalfa. That voicemail was widely criticized by local politicians and inspired another letter from the board. Nine of the 10 biggest conflagrations in California since 1932 have occurred in the past decade, and PG&E told regulators that its equipment may be linked to the giant, currently raging Dixie Fire, too. Newsom arbitrarily approved their safety rating while they continue to start fires and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), also appointed by Gov. Under the direction of the Trustee, the Honorable John K. Trotter (Ret.) PG&E was forced into bankruptcy after its equipment sparked the Camp Fire that killed at least 85 people and nearly wiped out the Northern California town of Paradise. Our work to process claims continues, and todays news is a sign of significant progress. Justice John K. Trotter (Ret. They now collectively own almost a quarter of the companys shares. NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters Breakingviews) - An experiment in compensating disaster victims with corporate stock has not gone well. The trust, which he took over two years ago, was funded with $13.5 billion, half in cash and half in the PG&E common stock. He pointed out that more than 85% of the victims voted for the plan, and on July 1, 2020, when the utility emerged from bankruptcy, paid $6.75 billion in cash and delivered 478 million shares of PG&E stock to the trust. In his letter to victims, Trotter recounted the creation of the trust and its recent history. Because unlike all the other bankruptcy claimants, the victims received one-half of their $13.5 billion dollar settlement in PGE stock. https://santarosapressdemocrat-ca.newsmemory.com/?token=CRID_john.stalcup@sbcglobal.net_26654&message_id=22606q2IXHqZd6krXsywJL3uC1IEx3QU&utm_source=emailMarketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email+stats, (14) https://www.counties.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/inverse_condemnation_fact_sheet_league__csac.pdf, (15) https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/FAQs.pdf, (16) https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-victims-lawyer-scrutinized-over-Wall-15241511.php#:~:text=San%20Antonio%20lawyer%20Mikal%20Watts,that%20became%20public%20days%20earlier, (17) https://krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/eureka-local-news/judge-refuses-to-approve-fire-victims-letter-attacking-pge-04-09-2020, (18) https://www.reinsurancene.ws/pge-pays-11bn-settlement-to-re-insurers-joins-wildfire-fund/, (19) https://www.firevictimtrust.com/Docs/Trustee_Response_to_5-28-22_Editorial.pdf, Ramona D. 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Bill Cook, a retired U.S. foreign service officer, lost his Paradise home in the Camp Fire, which was the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history. 15, 2022,the I am proud to introduce this bill alongside Rep. [Doug] LaMalfa to help our constituents receive the money they are owed, and will continue working to ensure survivors have the resources they need to recover from these tragedies.". "It shouldn't be a taxable event upon them because they're victims of fire," said California Congressman Doug LaMalfa. So, out of the gate our settlement went from $13.5 billion to $12 billion, and today the stock is about $1.1 billion underwater and victims have experienced a $212 million dollar loss in their Trust funds because Trustee Trotter chose to sell 100 million of victims' shares at $12.04 per share. Sound rich to you? A vote for Yes or No was essentially all the victims received no substantial input. 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The TCC and its attorneys have a fiduciary duty to advocate for the interests of all fire and other tort claimants in the bankruptcy proceeding. Claimants with Submitted Claims Questionnaires (CQs), ,the The PGE 2020 Bankruptcy and PGE Fire Victim Trust. In April 2002, he was named Managing Editor. Their millions upon millions of dollars from their 33% contingency fees from hundreds/thousands of wildfire victim clients they represent (plus costs) were in the balance and the sooner PG&E came out of bankruptcy, the sooner theyd start to get paid as the PG&E Fire Victim Trust excruciatingly slowly started to make pro rata (that is, partial) payments to some of their clients. Hedge Funds Cash Out Billions in PG&E Stock. After Getting Burned By Wall Street, California Fire Victims Fight To Reclaim Their Power. As part of a settlement, the Fire Victim Trust received half of an expected $13.5 billion payout in stock and the rest in cash. Read the responses, , the Trust sent letters in support of H.R. The Tort Claimants Committee (or TCC) is designed to give the individuals and families most affected by the 2017 and 2018 fires an independent and official voice throughout the bankruptcy case. PGE is Fine and Raising Electric Rates on Customers Again. He said in his letter that the trust still owns 377 million shares of the utilitys stock. (1,2,5,13), The Sting - The PG&E U.S. Bankruptcy and PG&E Fire Victim Trust, This petition addresses how the unbridled power of the U.S. Bankruptcy system and its Judge (Dennis Montali), Wall Streets Hedge Fund Managers, Pacific Gas & Electric corporation (the largest U.S. public utility) and its lawyers, insurance companies and governments and victims lawyers worked together and/or independently to financially dominate and become the largest beneficiaries of the $55 billion PG&E wildfire bankruptcy payouts. 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