California Supreme Court Clarifies that Employers Can Be Liable for Fire Suppression Costs Triggered by Their Employees’ Negligent Actions
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California Supreme Court Clarifies that Employers Can Be Liable for Fire Suppression Costs Triggered by Their Employees’ Negligent Actions

Co-author, American Bar Association, February 1, 2022

Wildfires in California have continued to break records since early 2020 when the California Supreme Court unanimously granted a petition for review of the Second District Court of Appeal’s 2019 decision in Presbyterian Camp & Conference Centers, Inc. v. Superior Court (2019) 42 Cal.App.5th 148, summarized in our May 2020 Law360 article, “California Ruling Could Shift Fire Suppression Costs.”

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