Attempt To Settle Massey Lawsuit

{West Virginia}...For the third time, Circuit Judges Derek Swope of Mercer County and Alan Moats of Taylor County are trying to settle a long-running lawsuit that claims Massey Energy Co. and its subsidiary Rawl Sales & Processing poisoned hundreds of drinking water wells in southern West Virginia with coal slurry. The state's Mass Litigation Panel is handling the case against Massey and Rawl Sales. Judges Swope and Moats have ordered lead attorneys for both sides to meet July 25th and 26th in Charleston to discuss a possible deal and avoid the series of trials set to begin August 1st in Wheeling.