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Case ID: 4593 | Environmental | 01/12/2006
A lawsuit against the Canadian National Railway over a train derailment that forced hundreds of residents to evacuate the southern Illinois town of Tamaroa can continue as a class action case, an appellate court ruled. The railroad had appealed a lower court's ruling that granted class action status to the plaintiffs, which number more than 500, according to the plaintiffs' attorney.
The plaintiffs accuse the company of negligence in the Feb. 9, 2003, derailment in the center of Tamaroa, a town of about 1,000 residents 65 miles southeast of St. Louis. Toxic chemicals aboard the train spilled, forcing hundreds of residents within a three-mile radius to evacuate, some for as many as five days. No one was injured. Canadian National has said it paid more than 800 households and businesses more than $700,000 in damages in the weeks after the incident. Hundreds of Tamaroa area residents filed the lawsuit against the railroad seeking compensation for damages they say they suffered as a result of the derailment and spill of hazardous chemicals. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Environmental Cases of Interest West Virginia University reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit affecting up to 5,600 former and current employees who may have been exposed to asbestos, the school announced. As part of the proposed settlement, WVU will institute and pay for a medical surveillance program to be conducted for 20 years. WVU also agreed to pay $1 million to cover potential claims and attorney fees. BP, the world’s third-largest publicly traded oil company, announced on August 5, 2006 that it was indefinitely shutting down production of its pipeline in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay oil field. Vinyl Chloride is a highly toxic substance: by the time it can be smelled, it is at levels 3,000 times higher than EPA safety standards allow-- it is associated with degenerative bone disease and fatal cancer. Plant workers, PVC (polyvinyl chloride) fabricators, railroad and transportation workers, and beauticians who worked prior to 1974 are most likely to have been exposed; exposure may also come through contaminated drinking water or living near an area where PVC is manufactured, loaded, or unloaded. If you or a loved one might have been exposed to this highly toxic chemical, please contact Kahn Gauthier for more information. A class action has been filed against Trex Company, Inc. (NYSE:TWP), certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between October 25, 2004 and June 22, 2005. The action claims that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. The stockholders seek to recover compensatory damages for the loss of value of their stock. In 2000, California Supreme Court ruled that workers must get paid for compulsory travel time. The court has rendered a $13+ million and verdict in a class-action filed against D'Arrigo Brothers Company on behalf of laborers, who alleged that the company failed to pay them for thousands of hours spent traveling on company vans to and from the crops they picked between 1996 and 2000. The money will not be distributed until all possible appeals have been exhausted. New Jersey resident Donald Coles charged that the Chambers Works Plant in Deepwater, N.J., released perfluorooctanoic acid (also known as PFOA or C8) and related chemicals into groundwater tapped by utility companies in New Jersey townships. Coles' filed a lawsuit against the DuPont Co. that targets the company's releases of a chemical used to make nonstick and stain-resistant products. |
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