Trotter told the Sacramento Bee on Wednesday that some fire victims are frustrated with the pace of payments. 'We walked into a situation where we could not meet the unrealistic expectations,' he said.
Fire victims receiving money from a PG&E settlement were appalled to learn thousands in medical liens are being held back from their payments.The trust was established to provide $13.5 billion to compensate some 70,000 victims of Northern California wildfires in 2015, 2017 and 2018, including a 2018 blaze that killed 85 people and largely destroyed the town of Paradise, northeast of San Francisco.
The fires were blamed on PG&E's long-neglected electrical grid, and the company was forced into bankruptcy, from which it emerged in 2020. The trust is run independently of PG&E but is funded by money and stock in the nation's second-largest utility, which could be sold. However, PG&E share prices have sagged and the trust is about $2 billion short of its required funding.
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