Residents await settlement money, but attorneys didn’t have to
EAST PALESTINE — While those impacted by last year’s Norfolk Southern train derailment are forced to wait for the appeals process to play out before receiving compensation from the $600 million settlement between the railroad and class action plaintiffs, it seems the lawyers who brokered the deal do not. According to case documents filed in Youngstown’s U.S. District Court — a motion by firm Morgan & Morgan to pause the payment of legal fees during the appeal and an order from Judge Pearson denying that motion — the distribution of the attorneys’ $180 million chunk of ...