How much should lawyers make in the Flint water crisis settlement?
Six years after Flint stopped drawing its drinking water from the caustic Flint River, Diane Fletcher is still fearful of drinking straight from the tap.
Her property has lost value “because the world knows we have bad water,” she told a federal judge this week. “And I don’t have to speak of the mental anguish.”
But because Fletcher avoided the worst health impacts from the city’s lead-tainted water crisis, the most she can hope to receive from a proposed $641 million legal settlement of civil suits against the state of Michigan and three other entities tied to the crisis is $1,000 for property damage.
In Fletcher’s mind, she and other Flint adults who don’t qualify for substantial payments from the settlement are being “penalized because God blessed us not to get sick or die.”
Meanwhile, lawyers seeking fees that could amount to about 30 percent of the $641 million settlement, she believes, are siphoning off money that “was supposed to be for victims.”
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