Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $53 million civil settlement against Veolia North America (Veolia), resolving allegations that the engineering company contributed to the Flint Water Crisis.
The lawsuit by Nessel sought damages from Veolia for its failure to properly identify corrosion control treatment issues, which exacerbated and prolonged the water crisis.
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Veolia has agreed to pay $53 million to individuals represented by the law firms Levy Konigsberg, LLP, and Napoli Shkolnik PLLC to settle a lawsuit filed by those individuals against Veolia.
In exchange, the State of Michigan will dismiss its separate lawsuit against the company.
The $53 million settlement will be distributed among approximately 26,000 individual plaintiffs who were directly impacted by the crisis, including a significant number of children.
The crisis began in 2014 when Flint switched to the Flint River as the city’s water source.
The agreement comes nearly five years after Nessel first announced the landmark $600+ million settlement to resolve civil litigation over the Flint Water Crisis against the State of Michigan, the City of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center, and Rowe Professional Services Co. This remains the largest civil settlement in Michigan state history.
