Class Action/Mass Disaster
In re Three Mile Island Litigation, No. 79-432, 87 F.R.D. 433, 557 F. Supp. 96 (M.D. Pa. December 12, 1982) (Rambo, J.) ($25 million certified and settled class action for economic harm and medical detection arising from commercial nuclear accident); discussed in Blumenberg, Medical Monitoring Funds: The Periodic Payment of Future Medical Surveillance Expenses in Toxic Exposure Litigation, 43 HAST.L.J. 661, 703-704, 713 (1992)
In re Louisville Explosions Litigation, No. 81-0080-L(B) (W.D. Ky.) (Ballantine, J.) ($26 million certified and settled economic harm class following chemical disaster); discussed in Newberg On Class Actions (3d ed.), § 11.02, p. 11-7
Stibitz v. General Public Utilities, No. 654-S, 1985 (Dauphin City, PA) ($1.25 million settlement for class of TMI rate payers)
In re Ashland Oil Spill Litigation, Master File No. M-14670 (W.D. Pa.) (plaintiffs' co-counsel in $30 million settlement arising from business and work interruption claims associated with the January 2, 1988 tank collapse at Monongahela River)
