flint water crisis settlement

Judge Newblatt's decision is the latest court ruling moving the $626 million settlement forward.

Flint missed a court-ordered deadline to replace its lead service lines and failed to track where crews doing that work allegedly damaged property, a federal judge says.

Special master Deborah Greenspan Deborah said processing all the paperwork submitted by last June has taken much longer than expected.

In a report to the federal judge overseeing the settlement, the claims administrator said about 72% of the claims are for personal injury. The rest assert a property damage or business-related claim.

Thursday is the deadline to file a claim for part of the $626 million settlement.

Flint residents will now have until June 30 to file a claim for a share of a $626 million legal settlement tied to the Flint water crisis. The original deadline to file a claim had been this Thursday.

To date, only about 13,000 official claims have been filed for part of the $626 million settlement. The deadline to submit a claim in May 12.

The plaintiffs' attorney had requested more than $200 million. Co-lead counsel Michael Pitt estimates the judge's order will mean the attorneys will receive around $190 million.

A “remarkable achievement,” that’s how U.S. District Court Judge Judith Levy describes the roughly $626 million settlement in her 178 page opinion.

McLaren Flint Hospital originally committed $20 million to the settlement. That now drops to $5 million.