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Lac-Mégantic victims’ families set to receive settlement
5th paragraph:
“Companies absent from the settlement…bring them to justice…”
If it hasn’t been determined that the chemists who judged the volatility of the crude and the failure of train securement caused the tragedy, and if these legal eagles accused the mentioned companies of acts outside legality, let’s clip the “eagles” wing feathers.
Those companies in the middle of the transaction, event and disaster have, to me, no discernible guilt, morally or legally…
World Oil, the shipper is responsible to see that the crude is labeled properly. CP filled out the shipping paperwork for them. They both share responsibility.
I notice that there is no mention of the fire department (who shut down the locomotive after the fire) being sued. If the attorneys are “covering all the bases”, then why not sue the fire department too?
No, Michael, if it was shipping crude oil;oil as conventionally described , they’ve no responsibility.
Should CPR have checked the train’s contents before accepting it?
No!.
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This is the kind of legal extortion that has become standard practice for tort lawyers. Sue everybody in the room even if you have no valid claim against them and get them to pay you to go away. A very effective way for the attorneys involved to finance that island in the Bahamas
This illustrates why I hate lawyers. The comment by the lawyer that they will leave no stone unturned trying to nail CPRR and the oil company for more money. The lawyer says they are responsible. Wrong! The only one at fault here is the MM & A and the engineer for not following the rules and properly securing his train. If the rules had been followed there wouldn’t have been an accident.