Four years on from the Buncefield oil depot explosion, reckoned to be the largest peacetime fire in Europe, lawyers representing 275 locals say that only "between 15 and 20" of their claims have been fully settled by the oil company responsible.
Residents near the Hertfordshire site, which went up in flames after an explosion that measured 2.4 on the Richter scale, have received compensation payouts from insurers, but are still pursuing claims against the oil company Total UK for uninsured loss, personal injury, as well as for loss of earnings and falling house prices.
Read more from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/dec/06/total-uk-buncefield-claims-outstanding
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