Outrageous Malfunction

If a landowner allows a situation to exist (say, a weak tree) that results in a loss for a utility, why don’t those utilities sue the landowner? If trees falling on power lines in Seattle caused the outages in December, why don’t the shareholders that bear those losses pressure the utility to recover the costs of repair from the people that caused that repair to be required? If you’re driving along and take out a power pole with your vehicle, the power company will pursue you to recover the cost. I don’t see why trees get a pass; driving around the east side, there are many trees that were leaning on the power lines before the storm that are still leaning on them. I assume in a subsequent storm, they’ll cause an outage.