On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed
by Edward D. Fagan, who
spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the
successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.