{"id":906286,"date":"2026-10-27T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=906286"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:36:52","slug":"inverse-condemnation-liability-limited-by-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/inverse-condemnation-liability-limited-by-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Liability Limited by California Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bradford Kuhn | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eminentdomainreport.com\/wildfire-inverse-condemnation-liability-limited-by-california-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nossaman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eminentdomainreport.com\/wildfire-liability-california-legislature-clarifies-the-role-of-public-water-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported on the California Legislature\u2019s passage of Senate Bill 1153<\/a>, noting that the Bill was waiting for Governor Newsom\u2019s approval.\u00a0 That approval has now occurred, and the Bill is official.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a huge legislative victory for water suppliers in California, as the Bill clarifies that public water systems have no duty to be designed, constructed, or maintained for wildfire defense or suppression\u2014and that the inability to maintain water supply or pressure during a wildfire is not a substantial cause of wildfire damages. Together, these authorities provide an increasingly well-defined defense to wildfire-related inverse condemnation claims against water providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While water suppliers still face risks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/inverse-condemnation-california-clarifies-basis\/\">inverse condemnation<\/a> lawsuits related to their facilities to the extent private property damage is substantially caused by an inherent risk in a deliberately designed, constructed, or maintained public improvement, inverse liability related to wildfire suppression is arguably off the table.\u00a0 We will see if there are legal challenges to this legislation, and whether this will help reduce insurance costs for water suppliers.\u00a0 Stay tuned in this ever-evolving area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When one of your cases is in need of a construction expert, estimates, insurance appraisal or umpire services in defect or insurance disputes &#8211; please call Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. at 801.641.8304, or email <a href=\"mailto:experts@adviseandconsult.net\">experts@adviseandconsult.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradford Kuhn | Nossaman We recently reported on the California Legislature\u2019s passage of Senate Bill 1153, noting that the Bill was waiting for Governor Newsom\u2019s approval.\u00a0 That approval has now occurred, and the Bill is official.\u00a0 This is a huge legislative victory for water suppliers in California, as the Bill clarifies that public water systems&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/inverse-condemnation-liability-limited-by-legislature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Liability Limited by California Legislature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[9895,12379,12,10913],"class_list":["post-906286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-2","tag-advise-consult","tag-california-sb-1153","tag-construction","tag-inverse-condemnation","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Liability Limited by California Legislature - Advise &amp; 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