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Insurance companies sue energy corporation after it was blamed for helping start Colorado wildfire
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FILE - The Marshall Fire engulfs a home in Louisville, Colo., Dec. 30, 2021, as crews worked through the night battling the blaze that had destroyed more than 500 home in Boulder County. On Thursday, July 6, 2023, dozens of insurance companies filed suit against Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy to recoup money paid out to homes and businesses lost in Colorado's Marshall Fire, the state's most destructive wildfire in 2021. - photo by Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, File
Dozens of insurance companies are suing Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy to recoup money paid out to homes and businesses lost in Colorado's most destructive wildfire in 2021. The lawsuit was filed Thursday, a few weeks after investigators announced that a sparking power line owned by Xcel was one of the causes of a fire that, fanned by high winds, destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and left two people dead. Embers from a smoldering scrap wood fire set days before on a nearby property used by a Christian religious communal group was also found to have been another cause.