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12 Jun 2015, 9:17 am
The FRA’s recommendations highlight the importance of passenger safety on our nation’s railways. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 2:00 am
President Theodore Roosevelt championed the Hepburn Act, which gave the ICC power to regulate “fair, just and reasonable” passenger and shipping rates charged by the railroads. [read post]
14 Sep 2013, 6:40 am
Officials with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) and the New England Passenger Authority (NNEPRA) will be working together for some research work to develop and test new trespass detection and deterrent technologies. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 12:25 pm
One study from the National Institutes of Health in the 1980s found that 514 white, male employees of an active U.S. railroad, 21 percent of the workers ages 50 and older had likely been exposed to asbestos on the job. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 2:41 pm
Lawyers at our firm have served as chairmen of the railroad section of the American Association for Justice, the largest national victim’s injury attorney organization, and one of our attorneys wrote a major legal encyclopedia section on railroad safety litigation. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 11:04 pm
In August 2010, Metrolink and Connex Railroad offered to pay a $200 million dollar settlement to the victims of the rail disaster, which was one of the largest train accident settlements in the nation’s history. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 6:11 pm
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found last month that the death toll in the 2015 Metro-North Valhalla crash was exacerbated by the design of the railroad’s electrified third rail. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 2:53 am
Through the end of last November, the Federal Railroad Administration received some 8,000 reports of injuries and deaths among railroad workers, rail passengers and people crossing tracks in vehicles or on foot. [read post]
8 Aug 2015, 6:52 pm
Those efforts include: Providing more than $650 million to passenger railroads, including nearly $400 million in Recovery Act funding. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 10:00 pm
This week, federal railroad officials unveiled regulations for equipping the nation's freight and passenger trains with automated braking systems. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 6:25 am
Lawyers at our firm have served as chairmen of the railroad section of the American Association for Justice, the largest national victim’s injury attorney organization, and one of our attorneys wrote a major legal encyclopedia section on railroad safety litigation. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 2:29 pm
The Court opened its new Term this morning with oral arguments in a California woman’s case against the Austrian national railroad: Carol Sachs is seeking to hold the railroad responsible in U.S. courts for an accident in which she lost both of her legs, while the railroad argues that a 1976 law, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, bars lawsuits against it. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 5:00 am
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports that close to 60% of all fatal railroad crossing accidents occur at unprotected crossings. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 6:16 am
Foley was a passenger in a truck stuck on the tracks as an Amtrak train approached. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 6:16 am
Foley was a passenger in a truck stuck on the tracks as an Amtrak train approached. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 10:21 am
– which owned the tracks and is one of the nation’s largest railroad companies. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 12:00 pm
Nationally, from January to August of 2008, railroad crashes have killed 330 trespassers and over 290 trespassers have been injured. [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 4:00 am
By Rick Shapiro, Railroad Crossing Accident Victims’ Attorney Even as the New Jersey Safety at Railroad Crossings Leadership Oversight Committee was holding its first-ever meeting on November 9, 2011, a pedestrian in Hamilton, NJ, became the 20th person in the Garden State to lose his life this year by being struck by a passenger train at a grade crossing. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 10:19 pm
The crash killed the SUV’s driver as well as five passengers on the train. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 4:46 am
I also know that collisions at railroad crossing can leave engineers, conductors, switchmen and trackmen just as bad off as drivers and passengers in cars or trucks. [read post]
