Brent Coon & Associates will host a ceremonial LIVE event to be held on March 23rd, 2010, the five year anniversary of the explosion in Texas City. Key speakers and attendees include corporate and union representatives, govt. safety organizations, representatives from the schools, universities and charities that received the 44 million dollars of donations, the families of the victims killed in the explosion, and many of the victims themselves.
About The Agenda:
Speakers at the event will provide an accounting of the pledges, promises and calls to action made during the litigation and ceremonies that followed. This, along with the progress achieved over the past five years, including such topics as plant safety regulations and process safety improvements, the status of settlement donations including the scientific advancements along with updates on all the major individuals, families, scholarship recipients and organizations, etc. will be addressed.
Additionally, BCA will be providing insights from judicial and legislative perspectives along with announcing key news about the status of the plant and their failure to comply with mandates set by OSHA and Department of Justice.
Finally, a ceremony to Remember and Honor the 15 individuals who lost their lives in the explosion will be conducted.
About The Hosts:
Brent Coon & Associates was the lead counsel in the BP Texas City Explosion of March 23, 2005, representing hundreds of affected workers. Working with the Chemical Safety Board, Department of Justice, the USW and other organizations, BCA released over 7 million documents to the media concerning refinery safety and played a pivotal role in establishing the occurrences of multiple, major safety violations. Conditions of settlements also included a precedent setting charitable donations program which raised 44 million dollars for UTMB, Texas A&M’s Process Safety Management Center, College of the Mainland, St. Jude’s, and the James and Linda Rowe Scholarship foundations. Brent Coon and his client Eva Rowe were awarded the Steven J. Sharp Award for Excellence by the American Association of Justice for their role.
For More Information Contact:
Jay Jackson
Communications Director
312-656-3471 (Cell)
jay@bcoonlaw.com