Lac Megantic Rail Disaster - Documentary

The untold story of what happened after the Lac Megantic rail disaster.

In July 2013, a runaway train with more than 7 million litres of volatile crude oil crashed in a small Quebec town – leaving part of Lac Megantic incinerated...and 47 people dead.
Soon after of the crash – when many bodies were still being identified -- lawyers from America turn up in town, offering to help families fight for compensation.

Working with them, behind the scenes is a shadowy Texan who's made a career out of turning disasters into dollars. He’s not a lawyer...but he has plenty of experience doing one thing: signing up victims of tragic accidents -- and referring them to law firms for a fee. A kind of ambulance chaser, or what’s called a “case runner.”

It’s a practice that has grown so out of hand in Texas they made it illegal. But nothing stopped the Texan from making millions in Quebec.

Working with our colleagues from Radio-Canada’s Enquete program, Mark Kelley reports on The Case Runner, next week on the fifth estate.