On Friday, a jury handed a sweeping win to two dozen Carson-area residents who said a foul rotten-egg odor that hung over their neighborhoods came from runoff tied to a 2021 warehouse fire. After a mass-tort trial over the blaze, jurors awarded $6 million in punitive damages and $2.89 million in compensatory damages, a multimillion-dollar verdict residents say finally puts a dollar figure on months of sickness, displacement and finger-pointing over who should pay for the cleanup.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the punitive damages will be divided equally, giving each of the 24 plaintiffs roughly $250,000. Compensatory awards for medical claims, which covered headaches, nausea and other health problems blamed on the stench, ranged from about $40,000 to $240,000…..