![]() Orchestra Partners Development firm’s Phase I of their plan includes transforming the parking area into a food truck park and more at the corner of 1st Avenue S. (WIAT) - The developers behind the Urban Supply entertainment district, also referred to as the Parkside district, have broken ground. I think our limits are going to be tested.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. XL is an insurance and reinsurance company registered in Dublin, Ireland, with executive offices in Bermuda.īurkhardt told reporters on Wednesday: “We have a lot of insurance, and I’m not going to advise at this point what our limits are. “It is too soon to comment on the materiality of the losses,” she said in an email. An XL spokeswoman declined to comment on the details of the policy. XL Group said on Wednesday that it was an insurer of MMA and its people were on the scene at Lac-Megantic working with the company and authorities. Attempts by Reuters to contact the engineer were unsuccessful. Police said on Wednesday evening that the engineer was not under arrest. He said the engineer was under “police control” and that they had talked about prosecuting him. We’re not standing around saying we don’t have responsibility. Initially we took him at his word,” Burkhardt said.Īsked whether a potential failure to set or test enough handbrakes could increase MMA’s liability for the wreck, Burkhardt said, “We’re acknowledging liability. “Our general feeling now is that is not true. One focus, experts said, is likely to be on the handbrakes the engineer applied and whether they were sufficient to meet Canadian railroad regulations.Įdward Burkhardt, Rail World president and MMA chairman, said on Wednesday the engineer told him he had set 11 handbrakes before leaving the train for the night. The question for a court could be whether MMA acted appropriately in leaving the train unattended overnight in Nantes with an engine running, and whether the engineer applied all the appropriate safety procedures. Once the venue for any lawsuit is settled, the challenge for any plaintiff will be to establish negligence. ![]() Lawyers said that could be tough when the damages to the rural Quebec town and its residents would likely be at the heart of any suit. venue would be the most convenient and appropriate. The United States offers plaintiffs the prospect of larger recoveries than Canada, but they would need to prove a U.S. While the catastrophe took place in Canada, the rail company is based in Maine, its parent is headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, near Chicago, and the train was shipping crude from North Dakota. ![]() Lawyers say possible targets of litigation include train operator Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, or MMA, its parent company Rail World Inc, and the train’s engineer the town of Nantes the supplier of the crude, World Fuel Services Corp and the Canadian government, which regulates the rail system.īut the first legal salvo will likely be fired over where the cases would be heard. It was the worst rail disaster in North America in more than two decades. Police have confirmed 20 dead, with 30 others still missing and a criminal probe begun. Canadian authorities have launched an investigation and say they are looking into possible criminal negligence.įifty people are feared to have been killed when an unmanned train hauling 72 tanker cars of crude oil slid downhill from the town of Nantes and derailed in the town of Lac-Megantic on Saturday. The key questions that will have to be answered in the coming weeks and months include whether any cases filed will be heard in Canada or the United States, which parties were most negligent and how liability for the crash is spread among them. ![]() A aerial view of the wreckage of the crude oil train is seen in Lac Megantic, July 8, 2013.
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