Lac-Mégantic: Supreme Court refusal clears CP rail of liability in 2013 tragedy - BERITAJA

Canadian Pacific Railway Company has been cleared of each liability successful the Lac-Mégantic, Que., train disaster that claimed 47 lives successful 2013.

Several parties, including the victims and their families, were attempting to writer the obstruction bearer for its domiciled successful the disaster.

But the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to perceive an entreaty aft the railway institution prevailed successful Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.

On July 6, 2013, a runaway train derailed successful the bosom of Lac-Mégantic, pinch its lipid tankers causing a monolithic detonation that reduced the downtown to ashes.

Under an statement betwixt various parties, a $460-million compensation money had been established for victims, their families, and creditors of the Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway — the bankrupt institution that had operated the train.

Canadian Pacific — which became Canadian Pacific Kansas City successful 2023 — had refused to salary into the fund, saying it bore nary work for the tragedy.

The plaintiffs had based on that CP, which shipped the lipid from North Dakota to New Brunswick, grounded to pass Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway that the lipid it was transporting connected the last limb of the travel had been improperly labelled.

As is custom, the country’s highest tribunal did not supply reasons for its determination not to see the case.