RESULTS: $375,000 (confidential terms) COURT: A Circuit Court (confidential) DATE: September 2022 ATTORNEYS: Richard N. Shapiro STAFF: Paula S. WHAT HAPPENED: Our railroad worker client was 63 years old when he was diagnosed with a blood cancer. He had retired from work as a railroad machinist and railroad hostler and had worked for…
RESULTS: $400,000 (confidential terms) COURT: Court location confidential DATE: Fall, 2022 ATTORNEYS: Richard N. Shapiro STAFF: Paula S. WHAT HAPPENED: Our client was a 57-year-old railroad worker who was a foreman at a railroad yard. There was a particular piece of equipment (confidential) that was not working correctly and which had been written up…
What Happened Our client had worked as a freight train conductor for the CSX railroad corporation for more than 20 years when he suffered a disabling injury in March 2004 when the taxi van he was riding in crashed. The van ran into the back of a tractor-trailer after the driver fell asleep at the…
What Happened The passenger train conductor who hired our Virginia-based railroad injury law firm had worked on trains for 25 years when he suffered a head injury, bruised ribs and a torn rotator cuff in a rail yard accident. He was moving a locomotive and rail car in the Union Station rail yard in Washington,…
What Happened Our railroad injury client was moving a train when several cars derailed. The shockwave knocked him off balance, and he struck his head and shoulder on the metal corner of a panel. While the train crew member did not report any disabling pain immediately following the derailment, he did apparently lose consciousness. His…