Positive Train Control, enacted by Congress in 2008 as part of The Rail Safety Improvement Act, was mandated to be implemented by Major Passenger and Freight Carriers like CSX, Amtrak, North Burlington Central, and Consolidated Rail, to name a few, by December 31, 2015. A Positive Train Control computer system on Amtrak may have prevented…
SEA – Northeast Regional Train 188 Derailment – May 2015 Northeast Regional Train 188 Incident AMTRAK is a registered service mark of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Dear Co-workers On Tuesday, May 12 at approximately 9:45 p.m., Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188, operating from Washington to New York, derailed in northeastern Philadelphia. There were approximately…
Repetitive Stress Syndrome is something that a lot of FELA lawyers and regular lawyers overlook. It’s an occupational injury that occurs to many, many workers on the railroad during the course of their career. Take an Amtrak worker who takes a hard-throwing switch over and over again in snow and cold weather and rain –…
The US Railway Safety Act was enacted by Congress under Obama, and it gives railroad workers, for the first time, the right to sue the railroad if they’re being harassed due to an on-the-job injury. So if you get hurt on the job and you file an accident report, and the railroad starts playing with…
First, obviously, in a FELA claim, when a railroad worker gets injured on the job, his only remedy is suing the railroad – that’s it. But the standards of negligence for a FELA case, a railroad case, is lower than a regular personal injury case. A man or a woman who works for the railroad…
Well, clearly, if you have a designated union counsel such that I am with Hach & Rose, you get a whole gamut of powers behind you. You have a lawyer that understands the railroad grievance process, if your status has changed from “disabled: injured on the job” and the railroad changes it to “disabled: sick”,…
Positive Train Control, enacted by Congress in 2008 as part of The Rail Safety Improvement Act, was mandated to be implemented by Major Passenger and Freight Carriers like CSX, Amtrak, North Burlington Central, and Consolidated Rail, to name a few, by December 31, 2015. A Positive Train Control computer system on Metro North would have prevented…
