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Great White is hoping to make peace with the past—and put their legal problems behind them.
The "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"-dispensing '80s hard-rock band will pay $1 million to settle lawsuits resulting from the deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that took the lives of 100 people, including the group's own guitarist, Ty Longley.
Federal court documents released Tuesday revealed Great White made the offer to survivors and family members of victims to settle its role in the inferno at the Station. The blaze was touched off when stage pyrotechnics ignited flammable soundproofing foam.
There was no immediate comment from Great White lead singer Jack Russell or a band lawyer.
On Aug. 18, the town of West Warwick and the state of Rhode Island agreed to pay $10 million each to victims of the blaze to settle all claims of negligence for allegedly failing to take appropriate safety measures.
Those settlements must be approved by the victims and the court and with the condition that insurers fork over the maximum coverage stipulated on the town's insurance policy.
All told, nearly $175 million could change hands to settle all the claims filed in the wake of the fire, according to the Providence Journal.
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United States hard rock band Great White has filed a settlement offer of US$1 million to families of victims of the Station nightclub fire. 100 people died including band guitarist Ty Longley and over 200 were injured in the February 2003 disaster in Rhode Island.

The fire started when band manager Daniel Bichele ignited pyrotechnics towards the beginning of a concert by Great White at the club. Cheap packing foam had been used as soundproofing material to surround the stage, and this ignited. Great White were never charged, but Bichele was given a 15-year sentence with 11 of those suspended in 2006 for 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter, to which he pleaded guilty. He was paroled in March this year.

The settlement offer would need to be approved by each of the over 300 plaintiffs, as well as the federal judge. It would add to $175 million already offered by dozens of defendants in the case. No money has been handed out to any of the claimants as yet, and a law professor from Duke University has been hired to develop a formula that will determine how much each party is entitled to.

The fire was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in US history.