GREAT WHITE - Three More Companies Offer Settlements In Station Fire Case

March 27, 2008, 16 years ago

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According to Projo.com, three more parties sued by victims of The Station nightclub fire have offered tentative settlements in the civil cases now pending in U.S. District Court.

JBL Incorporated, formerly known as James B. Lansing Sound doing business as JBL Professional, which allegedly manufactured amplifiers and speakers used in the nightclub the night of the deadly fire on Feb. 20, 2003, has offered to settle for $815,000.

The lawsuits filed by the fire victims allege that the speakers and amplifiers contained highly flammable foam and “were a proximate cause of the personal injuries and/or deaths of the decedents in the combustion of the so-called Station nightclub.”

The other two parties offering to settle are ABC Bus Inc., and Superstar Services LLC, which provided bus transportation for the rock band GREAT WHITE to The Station for its concert, as well as more than 25 kilograms of explosive fireworks material that the band carried on its road trip. Together they are offering $500,000.

Sparks from fireworks set off by Great White’s manager, Daniel M. Biechele, ignited highly flammable polyurethane foam that the owners of The Station, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, had installed as soundproofing in the club. One hundred people died as a result of the fire; more than 200 others were injured.

The new settlement offers –– disclosed yesterday in federal court filings –– brings the pool of settlement money offered thus far to $72.815 million. But the settlement offers are only tentative at this point and the fire victims and their families won’t be getting any of the money anytime soon.

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