A 72-year-old man and his 78-year-old wife were taken to the hospital with serious injuries after they drove their pickup truck into a train being operated by the RJ Corman freight company that had stopped on CSX-owned tracks in Versailles, Kentucky (KY). The accident occurred on the U.S. 60 Bypass around the city just after…
The Piedmont triad in North Carolina is home to 1.5 million people. Those people are about to get a lot more train and railroad traffic when Norfolk Southern begins offering six-day-a-week rail service between the Port of Virginia in Norfolk and Greensboro, N.C. This may mean nothing to residents now but what happens when that increase in train…
Like a majority of Americans, I was saddened when the last-ever mission of the U.S. space shuttle program ended as the Atlantis touched down in Florida (FL) on July 21, 2011. More recently, I was surprised to learn that our country has not only lost its means for traveling into space for at least 6…
A young railroad worker with a lot to live for was permanently injured in a terrible work related injury in New Orleans (LA). The client was a 33-year-old bridge repair worker who had been earning about $40,000 a year before a 1,600 pound timber smashed and partly crushed his lower leg on the bridge. The…
In his latest post to our Carolina law firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague John C. writes about a case in which an engineer for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway received a $2 million verdict. The engineer’s untreatable and potentially debilitating back injury after falling while operating one of the railroad’s locomotives. John notes…