MGM Resorts Reaches Settlement in 2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting

10/3/19
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
10/3/19:

Casino company to pay up to $800 million to victims and families of those killed in largest-ever such settlement

In what legal experts say is the largest settlement of its kind stemming from a mass shooting, MGM Resorts International Inc. agreed Thursday to pay up to $800 million to victims of the 2017 massacre outside its Mandalay Bay Casino & Resort in Las Vegas.

More than 4,000 survivors and relatives of those killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history will be eligible for payments through a victims compensation fund, according to people familiar with the case.

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