'A hiccup': California wildfire liability bill fails as lawmakers, Newsom clash over utilities

To stream ABC10 News on your phone, you need the ABC10 News app. Example video title will go here for this video SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers ended their legislative session this week without passing a bill addressing wildfire liability for utility-caused fires, raising new questions about the influence of utilities, special interests and Gov. The Senate and Assembly continuously pushed back on a key proposal by Newsom: subrogation. That is the process by which insurance companies — after paying wildfire survivors — can seek reimbursement from the third party responsibility for causing the inferno, which would be the utilities. As a result of that legislative pushback, the three-party compromise did not give Newsom what he wanted.

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