If your property is eligible you will be entitled to receive, free of charge, the following services to be performed by property cleanup specialists: (a) vacuuming carpets, rugs and accessible horizontal surfaces with a HEPA vacuum and (b) wet cleaning the following accessible horizontal surfaces: floors and floor vents, tops of doors and window moldings, window mullions, interior window sills, window troughs (if accessible), ceiling fans and light fixtures and radiators. The Property Program is designed to clean accessible horizontal surfaces in the interior of eligible residential properties. The Defendants have agreed to pay as much as $9,000,000 to fund the Program, which will last three years. Answer:Īs part of the Settlement, Defendants have agreed to fund a Property Program. The Notice provides details on what options you have in response to this Settlement, and how to claim benefits provided by the Settlement. The Court in charge of this case directed that this Class Notice be provided to you because you have a right to know about a proposed Settlement of the Property Class before the Court decides whether to issue final approval of the Settlement. The Class Notice explains the lawsuit, the Settlement, your legal rights, what benefits are available, who is eligible for them, and how to get them. As part of that Settlement, the Parties are required to notify certain affected person (i.e., the Property Class) of the Settlement, their right to participate in the Property Program established under the Settlement, if it is approved by the Court, and their right to object to the Settlement. Nonetheless, the Parties to the lawsuit have reached a Settlement.
The Defendants deny that any such contamination occurred. Specifically, Plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege that waste disposal practices at the Plant between 19 resulted in widespread dioxin contamination in the Class Area. Certain persons owning residential property in and around Nitro, West Virginia filed a lawsuit in 2004 in West Virginia state court alleging that their property and persons were contaminated by dioxins released at Monsanto Company's Nitro Plant located in Nitro, West Virginia, which is no longer operational (the "Plant").
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