Overall, the utility paid out about $500 million to resolve suits over the blast that left eight people dead and destroyed the Crestmoor neighborhood.
The Ruigomez family has revealed that they are now after the $20 million that the Girardi & Keese law firm lent to Erika Jayne's businesses, suggesting that more than half of the money given to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star was from their promised settlement money amounting to $11 million.
The jury in the criminal case against Pacific Gas & Electric's actions before and after the September 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno found PG&E guilty of obstructing investigators and five other charges involving pipeline safety violations.
Earlier, PG&E was fined $1.6 billion by the California Public Utilities Commission. Any new penalties would be paid by shareholders, not PG&E customers. The Sept. 9, 2010, explosion and fire killed eight San Bruno residents, and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes.