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Case ID: 4547 | Environmental | 11/22/2005
A verdict totaling $120.1 million was reached for plaintiffs in consolidated class-action lawsuits against a now-defunct oil refinery in Blue Island.
A jury awarded funds to two of three classes that sued Clark Refining and Marketing, since renamed Premcor. One successful class sued based on a chemical accident in 1994 that made numerous high school students ill, and another class was contained in a nuisance complaint against the refinery by neighbors, according to a clerk for Circuit Court Judge Cheryl A. Starks. The class for the high school students received $100,000, while the class of neighbors alleging the nuisance received $80 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive damages, the clerk said. A third class, which was suing for family expenses to pay medical bills, did not receive any money in the verdict the attorney handling the case said. In October 1994, a chemical release from the refinery required 48 students from Eisenhower High School in Blue Island to be hospitalized, according to a news report. The refinery was shut down in 2001 by Premcor.
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