Another step towards product liability insurance as a must have for manufacturers.
Associated Press reports about a packaging company, Sealed Air Corp. who made a polyethylene foam, which was installed in the Rhode Island nightclub.
Nightclub burned down five years ago and Sealed Air Copr. has agreed to pay $25 million to survivors and relatives of the 100 people killed, according to court papers filed Friday.
Victim’s lawyers say the foam burned too easily and produced toxic gas. Ken Aurichio, a spokesman for Sealed Air, said packaging material was allegedly misused as soundproofing, and noted that it was never determined the company even made the material in the club. Sealed Air did not admit wrongdoing, and its insurer will pay the settlement, he said.
It is so strange…