Court Gives Preliminary Approval of $600M East Palestine Derailment Settlement

This week, the court overseeing a lawsuit for the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, gave preliminary approval for a $600 million settlement to be paid by Norfolk Southern Railway, lead attorneys in the class action lawsuit said in a press release. The lawsuit stems from the disaster last year in which a Norfolk Southern train carrying an array of toxic chemicals — some of...

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