The relatives of those killed in last summer’s train derailment in Quebec are turning to former U.S. Senator George Mitchell to make sure they get paid in the railway company’s bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Attorneys representing holders of wrongful death claims against Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. in connection with last July’s derailment in Lac-Mégantic filed a creditor-payment plan yesterday on the railway’s behalf in bankruptcy court. Court papers show Sen. Mitchell, a Democrat who represented Maine in the U.S. Senate from 1980 to 1995, would administer the plan and lead the effort to wrap up MM&A’s chapter 11 bankruptcy following the railway’s $15.85 million sale to a unit of Fortress Investment Group LLC.
