HAIFA, Israel, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the Company), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced that on May 17, 2009 a request for the classification of a legal claim as a class action claim, as defined in Action Law - 2006 (hereinafter: the Request), was filed with the Haifa District Court against the Company and Carmel Olefins Ltd. (hereinafter: the Responders).
The Request was filed with respect to non-monetary damages caused, according to the Requestor, as a result of two smoke emissions events which occurred on September 15, 2003 and October 5, 2003 (hereinafter: the Events), with regards to which three prior requests for classification of the claims as class action have already been submitted, two of which are still pending.