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Metro crash authority sues broker

24 January 2011

The public authority that runs the Washington DC metro has sued Aon for negligence in relation to the Washington Metro train crash in June 2009 that killed nine people and seriously injured a number of others.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is pushing for compensation damages of more than $9mn from Aon for counts that include negligence, breach of contract and constructive fraud.

The incident occurred when one train, which investigators said was being operated by a computerised...

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