(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(East Palestine, OH) Over 100 people who live in and around East Palestine, Ohio, presently say they were duped into joining a settlement from Norfolk Southern that is $600 million after the derailment disaster that occurred in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3rd, 2023. They believe that lawyers have tricked them, while attorneys filed a motion to get relief in federal court. That motion states these people opted in the personal injury, and they did so based on information that was false. This motion claims experts hired by class counsel concealed the results of soil tests and water conducted by their experts, which have not been disclosed yet. This motion also claims that these experts were misleading people into believing there would be no health impacts that were long-term from the derailment, despite counsel being aware of people with permanent injuries that were documented already. This motion continues by claiming that their priority was to secure a settlement instead of a judgment that was proper and it now seeks to force the release of all reports, as well as to release people from both opt-ins for personal injury and the settlement.