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Kahn Gauthier Swick is investigating possible legal actions against Norfolk Southern and other responsible parties after a train carrying chlorine as well as several other toxic chemicals crashed into a parked train at the Avondale Mills Textile Plant in the small town of Graniteville, South Carolina, in Aiken County, on January 6, 2005, causing eight deaths, hundreds of injuries and an evacuation of the surrounding area.

Trusts must be administered exactly as the documents that create them specify. The parties have reached a tentative $33 million settlement in a class action filed against Bank of America on behalf of trust beneficiaries who allege that Bank of America failed to add it properly reimburse them after it discovered that its subsidiary Security Pacific had overcharged them. Persons eligible to take part in the settlement should contact the attorneys for the class for more information.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Western District Court of Kentucky against First Command Financial Planning, Inc. for violations of the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act. Class members seek compensatory and punitive damages and a cease and desist order requiring the defendants to stop the activity.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Western District Court of Washington against Universal Bank for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which addresses the infiltration of legitimate businesses by organized crime. Class members seek treble (triple) damages, attorney’s fees and costs.

American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA), a division of American Express, was served August 1, 2005 with a motion that asked Federal Court in Arizona to certify a class of more than 500,000 former AEFA clients. The motion was filed by leading plaintiffs attorneys in Arizona. In the Class Certification motion, the former clients allege that AEFA violated fiduciary duties and perpetrated a scheme to defraud its investing clients through the Company's sale of Financial Plans.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford agreed to pay $22 million to settle lawsuits filed by 43 people who say they were abused by priests, a lawyer representing some of those plaintiffs announced.