Civil Plaintiff
Over 85,000 Requests Have Been Made for the $641 Million Flint Water Crisis Settlement, but Problems Remain
Nearly 85,600 requests for money in the Flint water litigation settlement have been submitted, though law firms make up nearly half of the requests, according to a federal court filing made last week.
About 51% of the registrations were submitted by individuals and 49% by law firms by the March 29 deadline. U.S. District Judge Judith Levy granted preliminary approval in January to a $641 million settlement agreement between Flint’s roughly 95,000 residents and the state of Michigan, one of the largest in state history.
But the claims administrator has not finished scrutinizing the registrations for redundancies and deciding which are valid.
