How safe can a railroad crossing be when it looks like this? The image, taken in the course of a Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigation into a fatal crash involving a passenger train and a dump truck, illustrates that the truck drove into the path of the train largely because its driver could not…
My focus on railroad injury law requires me to spend time each time day scanning the Web for news stories regarding injuries involving rail workers, train passengers and collisions between trains and cars, trucks or pedestrians. Too often, I come across stories like the one about Orange County, California (CA), brothers who became critically injured…
Nursing homes have a high duty to meet the safety and health needs of their residents. This principle was recently upheld in separate cases in New York (NY) and Missouri (MO). In the New York case, a family won a $19 million jury verdict against the company that operated the Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home in…
An estimated 25,000 house fires are caused by space heaters each year. A group sharing a house in Virginia Beach learned this first hand on Jan. 4, 2010, when their electric space heater ignited flammable materials. My colleague Rick Shapiro takes note of this incident–in which, fortunately, no one was hurt–in his latest post to…
This blog focuses on the various rules that must be adhered to if you plan to file a claim against a city or government entity.