Train Derailment Class Members Tell 6th Circuit Fraud Was Found After Settlement

( July 31, 2026, 8:50 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — More than 190 class members who opted into the personal injury payment portion of a settlement reached in a case over a chemical release that occurred after a train derailed in Ohio in February 2023 filed an appellant brief in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, arguing that while the $600 million settlement doesn’t need to be reweighed, the trial court committed six legal errors when it denied their motions for relief from the personal injury payment releases after they discovered what they say is new evidence of fraud and misconduct by class counsel....