East Palestine Train Derailment Still An Issue

January 21, 2025 6:12 pm

(AP) – The residents who question whether Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement offers enough compensation for the East Palestine train crash don’t plan to let a judge’s order requiring an $850,000 bond derail their appeal. Instead, they’ve asked an appeals court to reject the judge’s requirement that they put up that huge sum. The class-action attorneys who negotiated the deal say the appeal will add administrative costs for the firm distributing settlement money to those who lived or worked in the area of the February 2023 derailment. Nearly $300 million of the settlement has been on hold because of the appeal though a judge approved the deal in September.