LA to pay $38 million over downed power line that electrocuted father and daughter
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has agreed to pay $38 million to settle a lawsuit filed after a father and daughter were electrocuted by a downed power line. Ferdinand Tejada, 53, and his daughter, Janina Reyn Tejada, 20, were killed outside their Panorama City home in January 2021, after coming into contact with a high-voltage electrical wire that fell into their ...
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has agreed to pay $38 million to settle a lawsuit filed after a father and daughter were electrocuted by a downed power line.
Ferdinand Tejada, 53, and his daughter, Janina Reyn Tejada, 20, were killed outside their Panorama City home in January 2021, after coming into contact with a high-voltage electrical wire that fell into their backyard. Two surviving family members, both of whom were witnesses, sued the DWP, saying the utility failed to properly maintain the pole that held the overhead wire in place.
In a statement, DWP officials expressed their “deepest condolences” to those family members, acknowledging they had
