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The city of West on Friday sued the owner and supplier of the fertilizer plant that exploded in April, killing 15 people and inflicting as much as $100 million in property damage on the small town.
The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, accuses the company that owned West Fertilizer Co. Adair Grain Inc. and the company that supplied ammonium nitrate CF Industries of negligence.
Adair Grain is accused of being negligent in the way it stored ammonium nitrate, the volatile chemical used as a fertilizer that investigators say exploded after a fire broke out at the plant April 17. But the locally owned company had only $1 million in liability insurance, which probably would cover only a fraction of the damage.
The lawsuit focuses instead on CF Industries, the company that had been supplying ammonium nitrate to the plant for about two years. Daniel Keeney, a spokesman for Adair Grain, declined to comment because he said he hadnt yet carefully reviewed the lawsuit.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/west-explosion/headlines/20130621-city-of-west-sues-owner-supplier-of-fertilizer-plant-that-exploded.ece
Demeter
(85,373 posts)atreides1
(16,118 posts)Any legal types here who can determine what the city's chances of actually winning are?
DURHAM D
(32,618 posts)is some guy named Philipp P. Koch.
http://www.forbes.com/profile/philipp-koch/
CanonRay
(14,146 posts)Everybody knows that's where all this is headed, and the town of West and the victims will get screwed in the end.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)will be able to do is get the land.
JMHO.