The Nation - News from July 19, 1985
General Electric Co., the last defendant in a civil suit in the fatal Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Ky., reached a $10-million settlement shortly before jury deliberations were to begin, announced Stanley Chesley, an attorney for the families of the 165 persons killed by the 1977 fire and also 81 persons who were injured. The judge said settlements by all 14 defendants totaled $14,150,000, and Chesley said that brought to $50 million the amount available in a fund for distribution by a court-appointed trustee to the nightclub fire victims.
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