Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., the company behind a deadly 2013 oil train derailment in Quebec, Monday has another $110 million for its fund to help compensate the victims of the crash, the Wall Street Journal reported today. World Fuels Services, the company that owned the oil shipment, said that it has agreed to pay into the compensation fund established for the victims of the derailment. The oil supplier’s contribution brings the amount raised for the victims’ fund to $345 million (C$431,500,000). MM&A sought the protection of U.S. and Canadian courts in August 2013 after being hit with an avalanche of personal-injury, wrongful-death and environmental claims following the derailment of an unmanned train carrying crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region, which leveled the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, and killed 47 people.
