---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-048972"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LMNR"
cik: "0001342423"
company_name: "Limoneira CO"
filed_at: "2023-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T18:36:23.410372+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Limoneira settles Thomas Fire claims with SCE for $9M

## Summary
- Resolved all claims against Southern California Edison for damages from December 2017 Thomas Fire and Koenigstein Fire.
- Total settlement of $9,000,000; company expects to receive ~68% net of legal and related costs.
- Settlement covers property damage and losses from fires near Ojai and Santa Paula, California.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-048972
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LMNR
- cik: 0001342423
- company_name: Limoneira CO
- filed_at: 2023-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342423/000110465923048972/0001104659-23-048972-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342423/000110465923048972/tm2313273d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-048972
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-048972.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Limoneira CO entered into Confidential Settlement Agreement and Release with Southern California Edison Company and Edison International valued at $9,000,000 (effective 2023-04-18).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: settlement
  - Counterparty: Southern California Edison Company and Edison International
  - Value: $9,000,000
  - Effective: 2023-04-18
  source text: On April 18, 2023, Limoneira Company (the “ Company ”) entered into a Confidential Settlement Agreement and Release (the “ Settlement Agreement ”) with Southern California Edison Company (“ SCE ”) and Edison International (together with SCE, “ Edison ”) to formally resolve any and all claims between the Company and Edison for damages relating to the Southern California wildfires known as the Thomas Fire and the Koenigstein Fire (together the “ Fire ”), which ignited on December 4, 2017 in two separate locations near the Cities of Ojai and Santa Paula, California.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1342423/000110465923048972/0001104659-23-048972-index.htm

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