Saturday, November 19, 2005

Claim: Rail leak damaged 30,000

 

By Dan Horn

Enquirer staff writer

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More than 30,000 residents and businesses should be paid damages because of the styrene leak that hit Cincinnati's East End in August, the residents' attorneys said Friday.

 

The attorneys made the claim when they asked a judge to combine residents' lawsuits into a single class-action complaint against the companies they blame for the chemical leak.

 

The claim states that anyone living within a 3.2-mile radius of the leak is entitled to compensation.

From the 1/10/06 Enquirer:

 

 

Settlements in styrene leak top $2 million

Claims continue to be negotiated as trial looms

By Dan Horn

Enquirer staff writer

 

Companies linked to the chemical leak in Cincinnati's East End last year have agreed to pay at least $2 million in compensation to residents and businesses, including $28,000 to Cincinnati Public Schools.

 

The payments resolve some of the legal claims from a leaking railroad car that spewed styrene into the air for several days in August, prompting the evacuation of about 800 properties.

 

But settlement talks have failed to resolve several pending lawsuits that contend as many as 30,000 residents and businesses should be paid damages.

 

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From the 2/1/06 Cincinnati Post:

 

 

Talks stall in styrene leak lawsuit

By Tony Cook

Post staff reporter

 

Settlement talks stalled Tuesday in the civil lawsuit filed by residents and others impacted by a rail car chemical leak in Cincinnati's East End last summer.

 

Attorneys representing residents and businesses and lawyers for the rail and chemical companies failed to reach a settlement in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court by Tuesday's deadline.

 

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From the 6/30/06 Enquirer:

 

 

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Area affected by styrene leak (PDF)

 

Deal reached in styrene leak

Residents to get up to $1,800 each to settle

BY DAN HORN AND QUAN TRUONG | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITERS

 

Residents of Cincinnati's East End could receive as much as $1,800 each as part of a tentative deal to settle lawsuits resulting from a chemical leak last year.

 

Lawyers for the residents and the companies involved in the case asked a judge Thursday to approve the deal, which requires the companies to pay $2 million.

 

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From the 7/22/06 Enquirer:

 

 

East End residents could get $1,800

BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

The chemical leak that inconvenienced thousands of East End residents in August is about to make many of them a little richer.

 

Notices went out Friday to about 4,000 people who may be eligible to receive money as part of a settlement with the companies linked to the leak.

 

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From the 8/29/06 Enquirer:

 

 

More payments in styrene case?

BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

Thousands more residents of Cincinnati's East Side might still get money as part of a settlement of lawsuits resulting from a chemical leak last year.

 

Lawyers on both sides of the case said Monday they are trying to reach a deal that would expand a $2 million settlement reached earlier this year.

 

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Hey, I smelled something funny and then followed the news in the paper for days, which took a lot of time!  I obviously need thousands of dollars to make myself whole again!

You know what's strange. Wasn't most of the people west of this leak? I would think everyone east of it would be affected more like Anderson Twp and Mt Washington.

From the 10/21/06 Enquirer:

 

 

Styrene checks coming soon

BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

Checks could be in the mail by the end of this month for East End residents awaiting compensation for a chemical leak in their neighborhood last year.

 

A Hamilton County judge next week will review terms of a settlement that is expected to pay as much as $1,800 to residents who were forced to leave their homes because of the leak.

 

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From the 10/28/06 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: East End residents waited in line in September, 2005 to file claims over the styrene leak that caused them to evacuate their homes.  Enquirer file

 

Styrene leak checks in the mail next week

BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

More than 1,200 residents of Cincinnati's East Side will get checks in the mail next week as compensation for a chemical leak last year.

 

The mailing couldn't come soon enough for Judge Melba Marsh.

 

Marsh is overseeing the $2 million settlement in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court that made the payments possible. Unfortunately for Marsh, many people mistakenly think she writes the checks.

 

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From the 11/16/06 Enquirer:

 

 

Styrene leak blamed for death

Man with chronic lung problem died three weeks after leak

BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

The family of an East End man blames his death on a chemical leak that forced the evacuation of East Side neighborhoods last year.

 

Relatives of George Dameron claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday that exposure to the chemical styrene aggravated existing health problems and contributed to his death three weeks after he breathed contaminated air.

 

The suit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court is the first wrongful-death claim against companies linked to the chemical leak, which occurred when a railroad car began leaking styrene in August 2005.

 

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