Nearly two months after replacing Kroll as the court-appointed settlement administrator responsible for determining and distributing individual amounts of last year’s $600M settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents impacted by the rail disaster, Epiq still has not announced when personal injury payments will resume.

In July, the firm reported it was “hopeful” those payments, open to individuals who lived and worked within 10 miles of the derailment, would begin again “by early fall”.

The official data transfer from Kroll to Epiq was completed on June 30 and that data was expected to be uploaded into Epiq’s system by mid-July.

An audit of Kroll, which was ordered by federal Judge Benita Person when she removed Kroll from the case, is expected to take 60 days.

According to eastpa

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