California’s wildfires have produced devastating losses, including fatalities, respiratory illness and long-term health impacts for those exposed to them. Impacted victims and their families frequently seek compensation from those believed to be responsible. California law provides multiple legal remedies—including causes of action for negligence, wrongful death, public nuisance, inverse condemnation and product liability—but the right to pursue these claims, ab initio, depends upon two prerequisites: proving standing to bring the claim in the first instance and establishing causation between the wildfire and the claimed damage or injury. 

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