More than 100 people who live in and around East Palestine, Ohio, say they were tricked into joining a $600 million Norfolk Southern settlement after the derailment disaster in 2023.

Attorneys filed a motion for relief in federal court. It says these people opted in for the personal injury, and they did so based on false information. Those people claim lawyers misled them.

"This should not be going on," Tom Young, of Darlington, Pennsylvania, said. "We've all been scammed by these lawyers."

The Beaver County resident lives about 3 miles from the train derailment site. He joined the massive class-action settlement with the promise that things would be made whole.

"I have 22 acres of property, and they are like, 'Well, you will be taken care of, you won't have any worries after this.' Th

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