An Agoura Hills, Calif. property owner whose home was destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey Fire is suing wildfire loss firm Levin Law Group PLC for legal malpractice, saying the firm could have filed a suit on his behalf in the mass-tort case against a California utility but didn’t.
Plaintiff David Kleynberg said his home and property were uninhabitable from Nov. 8, 2018 until Sept. 15, 2019, and items including family photo albums, a decades-old aquarium, landscaping, and a pond were destroyed. However, he couldn’t join mass-tort litigation against Edison International’s Southern California Edison utility because Levin Law Group didn’t file ...
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