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#71 CNJRoss

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Posted 20 July 2018 - 06:57 AM

The Washington Post, 7/19/18:
 

Metro reaches settlement with family of Carol Glover, who died in 2015 L’Enfant Plaza smoke incident

 

 

Metro has reached an out-of-court settlement with the family of Carol Glover, the 61-year-old woman who died in January 2015 after smoke filled a tunnel near the L’Enfant Plaza station.

 

According to recent court documents, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan granted a request by Glover’s two adult sons to dismiss the lawsuit they filed against Metro more than three years ago. On Thursday, Metro spokesman Dan Stessel confirmed that the case was dismissed because Glover’s family agreed to a settlement offered by the transit agency.

 

The terms of that settlement and the amount of money offered to the family by Metro are sealed from the public as part of the final legal agreement struck between the agency and family. In their original court filing in January 2015, Glover’s sons had sought $50 million in damages from Metro.

 

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Court documents posted this week show that of the more than 100 cases filed against Metro by victims, only 18 are still active. The rest have been dismissed by a judge — almost all of them by plaintiffs’ requests, which suggests that those, too, have been settled.

 

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Posted 10 November 2018 - 02:46 PM

WTOP radio 11/10/18:
 

More cases settled after train filled with smoke near L’Enfant Plaza in 2015

 

 

WASHINGTON — Metro has reached settlements with more people injured in the deadly 2015 Yellow Line smoke incident near L’Enfant Plaza.

 

Three more settlements have been reached in the last few months in individual cases, and two other people are in ongoing negotiations outside the courts, according to a status report filed Friday.

 

Nine of what are now 16 pending cases were only filed in federal court this year. They are on hold in the courts to continue settlement negotiations.

 

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Posted 12 January 2020 - 11:19 PM

WTOP Radio 1/12/20
 

PHOTOS: 5 years ago, deadly Metro fire hits DC

 

 

Sunday marks five years since the Metro fire that killed one and sickened dozens.

 

The National Transportation Safety Board said in 2016 that the fire was the result of poor maintenance and ineffective inspection practices by the city’s beleaguered transit authority.

 

See photos from the incident below.

 

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