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23 Apr 2024, 7:40 am by tortsprof
Yesterday, a federal jury found that BNSF Railway is liable in the deaths of two Libby, MT residents and awarded their estates $4 million each. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Associated Press
A federal jury said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 12:05 pm by Associated Press
Attorneys were expected to argue that BNSF Railway should not be held liable for the deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 8:13 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Railroad company BNSF will be taking over the investigation. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 2:30 am by Associated Press
— Jury selection began Monday in a lawsuit against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small Montana town near the U.S. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 2:00 pm
The trial court then entered judgment in favor of BNSF and dismissed the case. [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 11:19 am by Kevin LaCroix
Buffett devotes several pages in his letter, in the part in which he is discussing Berkshire’s overall blow out 2023 performance, to explaining why two key business units – BNSF and BHE – performed below his expectations during the year. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 5:36 pm
Back in the old days, when you saw a complaint against a railroad, it was for the typical stuff: a railway worker got injured, someone got hit by the train, a cow trespassed on the tracks, etc.By contrast, nowadays, it's things like this one: a railway worker claiming that he got cancer from inhaling diesel exhaust, benzene, and the like.The trial court bounced this one because it didn't think the experts satisfied Daubert, but the Court of Appeal reverses and remands for a trial.It's… [read post]
30 Nov 2023, 1:18 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
A spokesperson for BNSF Railway said the individual was not in a designated crossing. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 1:15 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
BNSF Railway Co.), plaintiffs firms have doggedly filed more than 40 GIPA class actions pending in Illinois courts. [read post]
24 Aug 2023, 7:44 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
 But BNSF sought to introduce evidence about Well's use of MAID, apparently to challenge the causal link between its conduct and Wells' death.The court rejected BNSF's arguments and agreed with plaintiffs that evidence of MAID should be excluded from trial. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 10:31 am by NARF
BNSF Railway Company (Motion to Compel Arbitation; Damages) Simms-Hiatt v. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 4:49 am by Ralf Michaels
The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. [read post]
17 Jul 2023, 10:11 pm by Idaho State Police
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) train was traveling eastbound when it struck the second trailer of the semi-truck. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 5:32 am by John Coyle
Indeed (she notes), this case is remarkably like BNSF Railway Co. v. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 8:08 am by Edward Smith
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) was involved, which is a group of 390 rail lines that transport freight around the United States. [read post]
The jury found that BNSF Railway violated BIPA by scanning and retaining employees’ fingerprints at its railyards without obtaining written informed consent and without publishing a data retention or destruction schedule. [read post]
18 May 2023, 9:39 am by Daniel Schwartz
BNSF Railways where an employee — let’s just call her “Betty” for this hypothetical — allegedly attended a Beyonce concert in a luxury suite while out on FMLA leave (and who only took the leave shortly after receiving a performance improvement plan). [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 6:10 am by Don Asher
  Norfolk Southern and Class One Freight Railroads: BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern, Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National Railway: Rail workers warn of safety problems long before the catastrophic derailment in Ohio. [read post]