Overview
- Argentina’s Supreme Court, in a Thursday decision, rejected extraordinary appeals from the State and an insurer under Article 280, leaving civil compensation orders final.
- The ruling covers specific claims by the family of Sonia Torres Rolón, who died in the crash, and by injured passengers Fabio Reynaldo Flamenco and Patricia Delgado Ferreira.
- Judges Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, and Ricardo Lorenzetti let stand findings of shared fault by the train driver Marcos Córdoba, operator Trenes de Buenos Aires, the insurer Liderar, and the National State.
- Courts found the train entered Once station at an unsafe speed with faulty braking and poor maintenance, and the second car crushed into the first, leaving 51 dead and about 800 injured.
- Outlets noted the decision builds on years of Once litigation and criminal verdicts, including the four-year sentence for former planning minister Julio De Vido, and it signals sustained State exposure in similar indemnity claims.