Members of the rock band Great White, whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people in 2003 in West Warwick, Rhode Island have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims’ relatives, according to court documents. Roughly $175 million has now been offered by dozens of defendants to settle lawsuits over the blaze, which also injured more than 200 people and is the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in American history.
The band does not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement, which requires the approval of the more than 300 people suing as well as the federal judge handling the case. Great White’s insurer is covering the settlement.
A law professor from Duke has been appointed to work out a formula to determine how much settlement money each person should receive.
Great White should have done the right thing and stopped fucking touring under that name! No one — no one, guys— with half a brain will EVER Forget who or what you are. Your name is shit in the music business. You’ve a ton of biker bashes in your future and nothing more anyway, so GO AWAY PLEASE. You’ve hurt enough people.