Report: Clear Channel Agrees To Pay $22 Million To GREAT WHITE Rhode Island Nightclub Fire Victims
February 13, 2008, 16 years ago
The Associated Press reports:
Clear Channel Broadcasting has agreed to a $22 million settlement with survivors of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire and relatives of those killed.
Lawyers for both sides have filed paperwork Wednesday indicating a tentative deal has been reached.
Hundreds of survivors and victims' relatives sued after the February 2003 fire at the club, which occurred when pyrotechnics used by the 1980s rock band GREAT WHITE ignited flammable soundproofing around the stage.
The tentative deal with Clear Channel brings to more than $70 million the settlement money offered to victims' relatives.
Clear Channel was sued because one of it's radio stations sponsored the Great White concert by running on-air advertisements.
