7-23-2018
OSO, Wash. — A second group of relatives of people killed in the deadly Oso landslide has reached an $11.5 million settlement with the state and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse.
The Daily Herald reports the agreement was reached in April and follows a $60 million payout the state and Grandy Lake Forest Associates made to a larger group of plaintiffs in 2016.
The lawsuit claims the state, county and timber company knew the hillside posed a serious risk to neighbors but didn’t do enough about it.
The 2014 Oso landslide wiped out a rural neighborhood and killed forty-three people.