Robert J. Keach, the trustee, said that the plan, filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Bangor, Maine on January 29, “will go nowhere” and is “facially non-confirmable,” according to Bloomberg News.

A group of wrongful-death claimants submitted the plan, which would allocate 75 percent of $25 million in insurance to the families of people who died in the July accident in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Claimants seeking compensation for property damaged in the derailment and subsequent fire would receive the other 25 percent.

Keach said that the plan relies on the assumption that insurance proceeds, a Canadian asset, could be transferred to the United States. An attorney for the official victims’ committee said that proceeds from the Canadian insurance policy would not be turned over to a U.S. court without an agreement between both countries’ courts.

Keach also said the plan would be a bad deal for the majority of claimants. He said the plan was proposed by a “splinter group” not participating in the official victims’ committee, and that it was a tactical move related to their resistance to Keach’s plan to move the wrongful death lawsuits from Illinois to Maine.

Bob Briskman is a wrongful death lawyer in Chicago, IL with Briskman Briskman & Greenberg. To learn more call 1.877.595.4878 or visit http://www.briskmanandbriskman.com/.

Fanny Roy Veilleux’s father Jean-Guy Veilleux, a resident of Lac-Megantic, allegedly died in the train crash. The minor girl’s guardian, Annick Roy, filed the lawsuit in Cook County against Montreal Maine, the railroad operator. World Fuel Services Corp. is also named as a defendant.

The lawsuit accuses the defendants of negligence in failing to keep the oil tankers compliant with reasonable safety standards. According to the complaint, problems with the tankers, known as DOT-111s, have been well-documented. The lawsuit alleges that the railroad and petroleum industries were aware of design flaws in the tanker cars and failed to take action to address the danger of the cars rupturing.

According to the lawsuit, the tanker cars were of the same type that ruptured in Cherry Valley, Illinois in 2009, spilling 324,000 gallons of ethanol. The complaint alleges that the DOT-111s in the current lawsuit did not have safety improvements that were recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board.

A class-action lawsuit was filed earlier in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of residents of Lac-Megantic.

Paul Greenberg is a Chicago wrongful death lawyer with Briskman Briskman & Greenberg. To learn more call 1.877.595.4878 or visit http://www.briskmanandbriskman.com/.