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Marketplace · Monday, August 31, 2026

California Senate bill exempts utilities from wildfire liability claims recovery

A newly introduced California Senate bill regarding wildfire liability reform would not prevent insurers from recovering claims from utilities. This news negatively impacted electricity providers, with PG&E and Edison International seeing significant stock price drops.

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Wildfire liability reform bill introduced in the California Senate would not prevent insurers from recovering wildfire related claims from utilities.
That hit this day to electricity providers hard.
PG&E ran down more than 20%.
Edison International slid more than 23%.
Heard on Marketplace — “Oil markets brace for maintenance season, published Monday, August 31, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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