Edison received 184 claim applications for its newly launched Wildfire Compensation Plan in its first three days, with dozens more in the pipeline, officials said this week. But critics of the plan were not impressed, noting that similar efforts by utilities have fallen short.

By Friday, on top of the 184 applications, another 209 applications had been started, bringing the total to 393 claims in the pipeline, according to SCE spokesperson Scott Johnson.

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Jennifer Hasbrouck, general counsel of Southern California Edison, told the California Catastrophe Response Council in a public meeting on Thursday that SCE received dozens of applications for its direct claim program in the first 24 hours after it laun

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