Families Of Sago Miners Reach Tenative Settlements
- {Charleston, West Virginia}...Nearly six years after the January 2, 2006 Sago Mine disaster, lawyers for families of six of the miners filed papers Friday indicating they had reached settlements with mine operator Wolf Run Mining Co. and resolved claims against parent company International Coal Group and other defendants. Terms of the wrongful-death lawsuits were not disclosed, but Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King scheduled a hearing for November 16th to consider approval of the settlements. Trial had been scheduled to start in May. Families of five of the miners killed at Sago and survivor Randal McCloy Jr. had already settled wrongful-death cases against the company.
