US EditionTrial 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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Chicago Tribune
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 …
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
Trial will determine who will pay $600 million settlement in disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment - OHS Canada Magazine
FILE – Portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before burn in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)Gene J. Puskar 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 …
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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