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Some East Palestine derailment settlement payments to go out during appeal process

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( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “appealing the deal.”

People who lived near the disastrous East Palestine (TEEN) train derailment last year should still be able to receive personal injury payments.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.

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VERBATIM: The payments would be made even while the bulk of the residents’ $600 million class action settlement with Norfolk Southern railroad remains on hold during an appeal. A spokesperson for attorneys who represented residents said provisions of the deal will allow those personal injury payments to be made even while an appeal challenging whether the settlement is adequate and fair moves forward. Four additional residents recently filed notice that they are appealing the deal.

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