Lac Megantic Rail Disaster : The Case Runner

Kelley, Mark (journalist). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Added Author). Journalist: Kelley, Mark. (Cast).

Summary: In July 2013, a runaway train with more than seven million litres of volatile crude oil crashed in a small Quebec town, leaving part of Lac Megantic incinerated and 47 people dead. Soon after the crash - when many bodies were still being identified - lawyers from the United States turned up in town, offering to help families fight for compensation. Working with them behind the scenes was a shadowy Texan who has made a career out of turning disasters into dollars. He's not a lawyer, but he has plenty of experience doing one thing: signing up victims of tragic accidents and referring them to law firms for a fee; a kind of ambulance chaser, or what's called a "case runner." It's a practice that has grown so out of hand in Texas they made it illegal. But nothing stopped the Texan from making millions in Quebec. Working with colleagues from Radio-Canada's Enquête program, Mark Kelley reports on The Case Runner.

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video (20 min 20 sec)
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Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2017

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General Note:	From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to Curio subscribers
Participant or Performer Note:	Journalist: Kelley, Mark.
Target Audience Note:	12-14.
System Details Note:	Available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: https://curio.ca/en/catalog/819d8ad5-a58b-45ba-98f3-26f805db8a20
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	CBC/Radio Canada has perpetual access rights to this streaming content.
Language Note:	In English. Closed-captioned.
Source of Description Note:	Source of description from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation