Settlement Reached in Fatal Fire at Nebraska Wesleyan

A Nebraska district court dismissed a family’s wrongful-death lawsuit against Nebraska Wesleyan University and the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity on Friday after lawyers for both sides in the case reached an undisclosed settlement, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. The father of Ryan Stewart had sued for unspecified damages in addition to more than $10,000 in expenses after his son, a sophomore, died in a 2006 fire at the fraternity. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined.