Lac-Megantic Victims to Seek Crash Compensation in Class Action
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Two residents of Lac-Megantic, the Quebec town devastated by Canada’s worst train disaster in a century, are seeking permission to proceed with a class action lawsuit on behalf of victims.
Guy Ouellet, whose partner Diane Bizier died when a 73-car crude oil train operated by Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. derailed and exploded July 6, and Yannick Gagné, the owner of the Musi-Café bar that was destroyed, filed an application for class action today, according to one of their lawyers Daniel Larochelle, also a resident of the town in which as many as 50 people died in the explosion.