Posted on 08/02/2024 10:40:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
In a landmark development, Governor Josh Green, M.D., announced Friday night that a historic $4 billion settlement has been reached to resolve all tort claims arising from the catastrophic wildfires that devastated Maui last year.
The devastating fires on August 8, 2023, have been linked directly to failures by the state’s primary utility provider during a critical windstorm.
At first, Hawaii State Attorney General Anne E. Lopez decided to withhold initial findings from the public regarding the massive Maui wildfires that took place.
This move is purportedly to “protect the integrity” of the ongoing investigation, according to a statement from the Department of the Attorney General. The decision has raised concerns about the transparency of the investigation, as local residents question whether this “independent investigation” will indeed remain impartial.
As investigations revealed, the deadly wildfires were sparked by downed power lines, a finding that directly challenges the Democrats’ narrative linking such disasters to climate change.
The Associated Press reported that people in Maui who drove around a road barricade blocking the lone paved road from Lahaina as fires raged earlier this month survived, while those who obeyed perished in their cars or fled to the nearby ocean.
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My electricity runs about $0.55 per kWh.
This BS agreement will push it at least 20% higher.
What happened in Lahina was standard “AiNoKea”
I live on the BI but I will pay thier bills
for bad decisions on the part of Honolulu centric Democrats.
Most Lahina people that were burned out will leave Hawaii.
The crappy plantation houses they lived in will have to be replaced by modern houses costing many times more than the owners could afford, so write off that group of people, they can’t afford modern housing.
Until you have seen Plantation housing think of it as single walled, slave housing, cheap and expendable.
That is why it burned so fast.
That is what that part of Lahina was.
I’ve lived in Hawaii 24 years now so I know their
“I’m a victim” BS. Don’t buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will this ensure the recovery of their properties from the Elite vultures circling above?
You’ve lived in Hawaii for 24 years and you spell Lahaina ‘Lahina’?
Yup!
Ever heard of “Humuhumunukunukuapua`a”?
I call it dinner.
And how much will find its way in to politician’s pocket?
The devastating fires on August 8, 2023, have been linked directly to failures by the state’s primary utility provider during a critical windstorm.
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.....And Trump was convicted of 34 felonies.
A lawsuit settlement is a reflection of your chances against the mainstream press and the jury pool who get influenced by them. Hawaii’s press and its potential jurors are purely communist.
Those dirty capitalists. /s
If I had a hill behind my house that was a fire hazard, and there was a fire that almost burned down my neighborhood, I would be doing something about that. I would hire an attorney, get my neighbors to sue the landholder, get politically active. Lahaina had a fire that almost burned that town down five years prior to the fire that actually did burn Lahaina down. In the interim five years between the two fires, no one ( except one family) did anything. Lahaina is second to Waikiki for tourism , yet nothing was done. Its the Hawaiian way. Put your head in the sand. In some ways, I have sympathy. On the other hand, if you don’t look out and take care of your town, consequences happen. Most of those people will have to move, and eventually, wealthy people will move in. I bet you the new residents will be a lot more proactive. It was laziness and stupidity, just like how they vote in Hawaii.
So, they were able to locate and charge the directed energy weapon company?
They sued the power company - “all your power rates r belong to us!”
Love the Big Island . Have been there 3 times with the wife visiting from Japan . Too bad about the local politicians on the BI and elsewhere in HI , though . Will it ever change ? Doubtful , huh ?
The State of Hawaii, Maui County, Hawaiian Electric Industries, Kamehameha Schools and other defendants have agreed to pay $4.037 billion to settle legal claims related to wildfires that destroyed much of Lahaina and killed 102 people in August 2023.
HECO said in a statement its part of the agreement is $1.99 billion. The settlement term sheet, which was filed in Maui state court on Friday, did not disclose the amounts individual defendants would pay.
The agreement marks the culmination of months of court-ordered mediation and ends speculation that a deal was close. Also agreeing to settle are Spectrum Oceanic, Charter Communications, Cincinnati Bell, Hawaiian Telcom and several entities affiliated with West Maui Land Co. and Launiupoko Water Co.
A major outstanding question involves what happens to lawsuits brought by insurers who have paid out billions of dollars in claims.
According to the Hawaii Insurance Division, claims paid as of June 30 totaled $2.34 billion including $1.37 billion for property damage. Insurers have filed several so-called subrogation lawsuits seeking reimbursement from the defendants for these claims.
These insurers did not sign on to the settlement term sheet. And if they were given a priority for payments from the settlement fund, it would mean significantly less money for fire victims.
Plaintiffs have argued that Hawaii law calls for fire victims to be made whole before the insurance companies can be reimbursed.
The term sheet essentially creates a 90-day deadline for one of two things to occur: either the insurers settle the subrogation claims or a court determines that, in the event of a final settlement, the insurers’ recovery would come from policyholders who received settlement payments — and not from the defendants
As long as wem have Democrats politics in Hawaii will be bad.
Expecting a Democrat to be honest and honorable is like expecting a shark to not take at least one bite when you are bleeding.
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