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NUS settles $55 million lawsuit over 2012 fire caused by gas leak

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K.C. Vijayan

Senior Law Correspondent

Updated

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December 21, 2020 at 5:00 AM

SINGAPORE - Three defendant companies have settled a lawsuit with the National University of Singapore (NUS), which had claimed $55 million in damages over an extensive gas-leak fire in a laboratory at the NUS Kent Ridge campus in 2012.

The terms of the settlement reached by NUS with Air Liquide Singapore and the two other defendants are confidential and the agreed sum payable cannot be disclosed.

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