Hawaiian Electrical Co. hasn’t responded in court docket to rising lawsuits filed towards it over this month’s lethal wildfires in Maui, however preliminary defenses may concentrate on placing inverse condemnation claims and whether or not its downed energy strains really brought about the hearth.
On Aug. 17, Joachim Cox and Randall Whattoff, each companions at Honolulu’s Cox Fricke, appeared for Hawaii Electrical in a category motion filed in O’ahu’s First Circuit Court docket. On Aug. 18, Hawaiian Electrical informed buyers in a submitting with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee that, regardless of preliminary information experiences, it had no plans to restructure however would “be right here for the long run.”
