Newspaper — Named & Quoted
The Press Democrat — Santa Rosa, California
Former Journey's End Residents Win Settlement from Insurance Company
The Press Democrat — the primary newspaper of record for Sonoma County — covered the $686,786 Journey's End federal settlement and quoted Kendall Jarvis directly by name as the disaster relief attorney for Legal Aid of Sonoma County who helped represent the residents. The article details the three-year legal fight against Foremost Insurance and its impact on the survivors, including one plaintiff who died shortly after the settlement and others who struggled to find stable housing due to the delay.
"This resolution took more than three years and that never should have happened."
— Kendall Jarvis, disaster relief attorney, Legal Aid of Sonoma County"We shouldn't have had to fight so hard for something the plaintiffs were entitled to from the beginning."
— Kendall Jarvis, The Press Democrat, January 2021Article Context
- The Press Democrat is Sonoma County's primary daily newspaper — the most widely read regional outlet covering this story
- Article profiles individual survivor Inger Simonsen, 75, and her son Oliver and daughter-in-law Carma — giving the settlement a human face
- Kendall is identified as representing the residents alongside co-counsel Kornblum Cochran Erickson & Harbison LLP
- Notes that one plaintiff, Theresa Udall, died shortly after the settlement became certain — underscoring the urgency of the delays
- Foremost Insurance's position: homes that survived the fire were not "physically damaged" and therefore not covered — even though they were uninhabitable
- Settlement approved by U.S. District Court, Northern California