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Omaha Steve

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Fri Mar 25, 2016, 08:54 PM Mar 2016

ConAgra liable for $108.9 million after fatal explosion; likely the largest civil award in Nebraska

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Russell Hubbard

ConAgra Foods, the Fortune 500 company that is moving its headquarters to Chicago, has been found liable for $108.9 million in a civil lawsuit that is perhaps the largest of its kind in Nebraska history.

The case is related to damages stemming from a fatal explosion at a Slim Jim plant in North Carolina in 2009.

The Omaha-based company was found to be "negligent" in the explosion and injuries Friday by a civil lawsuit jury in Douglas County District Court.

Nebraska district courts don’t keep formal records of the jury verdicts leading to monetary damages. Recent large ones have included the approximately $43.5 million verdict last year in Douglas County Court in a dispute between rival software firms. The Fraser Stryker law firm of Omaha said at the time it believed it to be the largest in state history.

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A Slim Jim meat products plant in Garner, North Carolina, is seen after an explosion on June 9, 2009.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/money/conagra-liable-for-million-after-fatal-explosion-likely-the-largest/article_81f336ce-f2ba-11e5-840e-f3bca4f3f045.html

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ConAgra liable for $108.9 million after fatal explosion; likely the largest civil award in Nebraska (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2016 OP
Four dead. I repeat, Four dead. ChairmanAgnostic Mar 2016 #1
Slim Jim plant? - damn, packman Mar 2016 #2
109 million? That's lunch money for ConAgra. Not that they'll pay it anyway. nt valerief Mar 2016 #3
They'll probably appeal this amount down to a few 1000 dollars later. Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #4

Major Hogwash

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4. They'll probably appeal this amount down to a few 1000 dollars later.
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 03:42 PM
Mar 2016

I can't imagine their lawyers would just sit idly by and let this type of judgment go unchallenged.

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