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FELA – Railroad Cars Strike Locomotive With Great Force, Propelling Plaintiffs To Floor In Train Yard

$404,406
The 35 year old plaintiff contended that he suffered a partial right rotator cuff tear and impingement syndrome requiring shoulder surgery on the right dominant side. This plaintiff also maintained that he sustained herniations at L3-4 and L4-5 that were confirmed by MRI and which necessitated epidural injections. The plaintiff maintained both injuries will cause pain and[...]

FELA – Path Railroad Injury

$603,000
FELA – Railroad motorman’s seat collapses – Lumbar herniations requiring two surgical interventions – Seat collapses again upon return to work resulting in aggravation. The male plaintiff railroad motorman in his 40s contended that the motorman’s seat situated in the locomotive was defective, resulting in its collapsing as the plaintiff was operating the train. The plaintiff maintained[...]

FELA Case

$650,000
The plaintiff railroad conductor contended that the defendant railroad improperly created a trough, inadequately covered it with ballast and wood chips, and failed to provide warnings. The plaintiff contended that as he was walking, he stepped on the area, that the ground gave way and his foot and leg fell into the hole. The plaintiff maintained that[...]

FELA – Railroad Injury

$750,000
This was a FELA case in which the 37 year-old male plaintiff train engineer, who was at the edge of a car when he was attempting to communicate with another worker as he was in the process of manually decoupling cars, contended that the defendant failed to provide a safe place to work in that water from[...]

Recovery in FELA case

$765,897
Failure of railroad to remove snow in train yard after 20 inch snowfall – Plaintiff train engineer slips and falls as he is stepping over the electrified third rail to reach train – Knee injuries – Chondroplasty – Knee arthritis – Sprain wrist – Inability to continue working for railroad HUDSON COUNTY, NJ The plaintiff railroad engineer,[...]