Metro News Release

For immediate release: June 28, 2010

Metro's excess liability insurance carrier to pay beneficiaries for accidental deaths

13 families eligible for coverage

For the past two months, Metro officials have been working with its excess liability insurance carrier, Chartis, to determine if insurance coverage is applicable under “Accidental Death and Dismemberment Coverage” in the policy for the beneficiaries of the train operator and eight passengers who died during the June 22, 2009, train accident. Chartis has indicated that such coverage will be accepted.

As a result, Metro is pleased to announce that it is in the process of contacting attorneys for the nine people who died in last year’s accident, as well as representatives and attorneys for four other Metro employees and one contractor who died on duty after July 1, 2008, when the policy became effective.

While the policy provides for $50,000 benefit for the beneficiary of each decedent, the insurance policy determines the specific beneficiary(ies) who are eligible for coverage.

This benefit is entirely unrelated to any pending litigation before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

News release issued at 5:15 pm, June 28, 2010.