In 2020, the local gas/electric company (Indiana) came through my yard and marked a tree for removal. I came back from a trip to find out they'd cut only the branches hanging over their power line and nothing else on that particular tree. In addition, they butchered a few younger oaks that I hadn't agreed to (but, in hindsight, were probably covered in the language of whatever I signed to allow them to work on the big tree.) Immaterial to all of this, but still angering enough for me to be petty about it, they left all the debris on my lawn for me to cut up and haul off myself.

Flash forward to now, three years later, one of the young oaks, which had looked kind of rough since they'd "trimmed" it, never came back from winter.

I asked the company to come out and take a look and they said since it's no direct danger of falling on their lines unless it topples, they're not going to do anything about it, but that I'm free to contact the contractors and see what can be done.

So do I have any chance of getting this thing taken care of since the contractors (presumably) killed it? Doesn't seem right that they could go ahead and cut the branches off the thing, ultimately killing it, and I'm on the hook for removal.

Edit: Looking at it now, "can I make them take it down" seems aggressive, wish I could edit, but I'm sure you get what I'm getting at.

Edit 2 - Update: They're taking it down! A comment here (thanks, backslash_nick) mentioned oak wilt, which is a distinct possibility in my neighborhood. I relayed that info to an incredibly helpful tech at the utility company, who relayed it to an incredibly helpful arborist with the company. The arborist came out, looked at it, and (surprisingly) said straight out "Yeah, there's a good chance we killed it.", which was genuinely refreshing to hear. He was really nice, said they'd be taking it down to the ground and cutting it into firewood-sized chunks so I could burn it in-place.

Just about as good of a resolution that I could hope for, really.