Inverse Condemnation - Part 2

Marc Marcantonio, General Manager at Yorba Linda Water District, will discuss his district’s experience, lessons learned, and peer advice associated with inverse condemnation litigation from the 2008 Freeway Complex Fire.

This video series covers the evolving legal theory of inverse condemnation and its direct impact on those public water systems that own and operate water delivery systems. Inverse condemnation is a complicated legal theory presenting unique defense challenges for public water systems. The issue is particularly salient as physical injury to real property associated with a wildfire is now being linked as a wrongful taking by a public water system when their fire suppression infrastructure fails during a wildfire.