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Report: Victims Of GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire May Not Get Payments For Months

July 28, 2009

Tracy Breton of The Providence Journal reports: Lawyers for the victims of the Station nightclub fire had hoped that their clients would be getting their settlements this summer. But the payouts are still months away.

Now it looks like the victims will be lucky if they get their money by the end of the year.

Sixty five defendants have offered a total of $176 million to settle federal lawsuits brought by more than 300 injured victims and families who lost a loved one in the Feb. 20, 2003, fire in West Warwick — the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. The legal proceedings spawned by the fire have been unprecedented in Rhode Island in terms of the numbers of plaintiffs, defendants and lawyer hours that have been spent on behalf of both the plaintiffs and defendants in working out settlement agreements.

Read the entire report from The Providence Journal.

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