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Trial will determine who will pay $600 million settlement in disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment

Norfolk Southern wants GATX and OxyVinyls to share the cost of the $600 million settlement over the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as Norfolk Southern believes those companies are partly responsible.
The derailment caused a spill and fire of chemicals, prompting officials to release and burn vinyl chloride, forcing evacuations and generating a massive black plume of smoke.
Norfolk Southern argues GATX bears responsibility for the derailment due to the railcar failure, and OxyVinyls provided inconsistent information about vinyl chloride.

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Inside Norfolk Southern’s safety ‘transformation’ since Ohio train disaster

JACKSON, Ga. — Down an unmarked dirt road in this rural town between Atlanta and Macon, a massive metal shed quietly sits over part of a Norfolk Southern train track. But each time a train whooshes through, that shed comes alive with stadium lights as dozens of cameras take a thousand pictures of it — to try to spot defects that could lead to catastrophe. It’s been more than two years since a fiery derailment in rural Ohio made Norfolk Southern …

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Trial will determine who pays $600 million settlement in Norfolk Southern's East Palestine derailment

Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned

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Jury to decide if companies owe Norfolk Southern in East Palestine derailment payout

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio— A trial is set to begin Monday over whether two companies should pay Norfolk Southern over the 2023 derailment disaster in East Palestine.

1 day ago·Cleveland, United States

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Trial will determine who will pay $600-million settlement in disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment

The railway company wants two other companies it believes are partly responsible for the disaster to be forced to pay a portion of the settlement

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Request to lessen bond in East Palestine Train Derailment settlement appeals case denied

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (WKBN) -- A motion to lessen the bond to request an appeal in the East Palestine Train Derailment settlement has been denied. According to court records, plaintiffs filed a motion in the U.S. District Court in Youngstown on March 21 to allow the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to reduce or eliminate the $850,000 supersedeas bond, which is required to continue the appeal process of the settlement’s final approval…

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Trial will determine who will pay $600 million settlement in Norfolk Southern derailment

By JOSH FUNK Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned. The railroad filed the motion that is set to go to trial starting Monday to force the railcar owner GATX and the chemical manufacturer OxyVinyls to share the cost of the settlement because Nor…

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