From St. Louis Today: After paying $43 million to the widows of two St. Louis firefighters, the former Survivair, now Sperian Protection, added $7 million last fall to satisfy one widow's claims of deception and fraud.

That widow, Laura Morrison, originally settled a lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court after receiving a $3 million settlement. But after a trial over the other death — and reports that defects in self-contained breathing equipment and safety gear were hidden from firefighters, fire departments, regulators, lawyers and judges — she sued again.

Her lawyers accused Sperian and its officers and employees of lying under oath and concealing thousands of problems.

The settlement ends a series of suits arising from the deaths of firefighters Rob Morrison and Derek Martin, both of Rescue Squad 1, at a blaze May 3, 2002. Read the entire article here.