After weeks of negotiations, the family of a woman killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel collapsed on her car has reached a $6 million settlement with the epoxy supplier blamed for the accident, family representatives and company officials said. Powers Fasteners Inc.

The family of a woman killed when the ceiling of a Big Dig tunnel collapsed on her car last year has agreed to a $6 million settlement with the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for the accident, an attorney said Monday.

Two firms have offered to pay well north of $300 million to avoid criminal charges in a fatal tunnel collapse in Boston's Big Dig, it was reported Sunday.

BOSTON -- After more than a year of investigations by state and federal agencies, the company that provided the epoxy blamed in the fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse was indicted Wednesday in the death of a motorist crushed by ceiling panels. Powers Fasteners Inc.

By STEVE LeBLANC BOSTON - The company that provided the epoxy blamed in the fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse was indicted Wednesday in the death of a motorist crushed by ceiling panels. Powers Fasteners Inc., was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter, Attorney General Martha Coakley said.