Trial will determine who will pay $600 million settlement in disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment [View all]
Source: Yahoo! News/AP
Sun, March 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM EDT
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 Norfolk Southern believes those companies are partly responsible for what happened in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, 2023.
This lawsuit won't change anything about how much money residents will receive from the settlement or any payments the village or anyone else is set to receive because those are all established in various settlement agreements. This case will only affect which company has to write the checks to pay for the class-action settlement.
Residents are still waiting to receive most of the money from the settlement because of pending appeals, although some payments have started to go out.
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