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28 Jun 2011, 6:50 pm
Now, Amtrak train attendant Alexandra Curtis has filed a truck accident lawsuit against trucker Lawrence Valli and his employer John Davis Trucking Company. [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]
26 Jun 2011, 8:22 am
A commercial semi-truck crashed into the side of Amtrak passenger train killing two, and injuring many. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 11:22 am
CNN reports that John Davis Trucking Company is under investigation following a crash that involved one of their truckers, who crashed into an Amtrak train carrying 195 passengers and 14 crew members at a railroad crossing. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 10:50 am
I’ve written about the case before, in a Reason.org blog post: Amtrak, formally called the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, was created by statute in 1970. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 6:28 am
National Railroad Passenger Corp., a summary order issued on December 2. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 12:52 pm
Puzzled about just what kind of entity Congress created when it set up Amtrak to run the nation’s passenger trains, the Supreme Court spent an hour Monday trying to decide the future of that system and, indeed, whether even to decide or hand this dispute back to a lower court. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 7:44 am
” Amtrak said there were seven crew members and 77 passengers on board at the time of the accident. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 7:20 am
Potentially Helpful Info Pursuing either railroad employee injury claims or lawsuits against trucking companies is difficult. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 5:00 pm
” Congress created Amtrak – the National Railroad Passenger Corporation – in 1970, and service began in 1971. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 7:47 am
An exact passenger estimate is difficult to ascertain as Amtrak does not record the amount of passengers that actually board the train. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 9:07 pm
A federal appeals court last year invalidated a 2008 law giving the operator of the nation’s passenger railroad service — Amtrak — a significant role in writing standards for performance of passenger trains. [read post]
13 May 2015, 6:40 am
Amtrak, known more formally as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is a railroad service, which is publicly funded but is operated and managed as a for-profit corporation; in other words, its structure is complex, but it is essentially a blend of government and private industry. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 8:53 am
With these plans in place, Amtrak and the FRA will begin the task of leveraging their statutory and regulatory power to negotiate the final routes and schedules with the railroad companies on whose tracks the corridors will run. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 8:00 am
On October 5, an Amtrak passenger train, traveling through Vermont, derailed injuring six people, and, thankfully, killing none. [read post]
26 Oct 2021, 3:21 pm
When passengers take trains, they entrust their safety to train operators and railroad companies with the reasonable assumption that they will reach their destination without incident. [read post]
5 May 2017, 6:00 am
by Mark Kantor and Karl Bayer In National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 4:26 pm
In response, John Davis Trucking Company filed a lawsuit against Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad (UP), in the U.S. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 5:30 am
NTSB’s recommendations seem particularly appropriate for the passenger and freight rail lines that operate in Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia (VA), where I practice railroad law. [read post]
13 May 2015, 12:10 pm
It’s too early to know exactly what happened to Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188, and it would be inappropriate to speculate about that incident until the fate of every passenger is known, and the National Transportation Safety Board finishes its investigation. [read post]
