South Carolina lawmakers are proposing a bill which would further limit the workers compensation rights of illegal foreign workers. The law raises several varied issues about workers’ rights and worker safety.
As experienced railroad injury lawyers, railroad worker clients sometimes call us, or talk to our law firm investigators, and think that they might want to wait several months before deciding on hiring a railroad injury lawyer. While a short delay may not make a difference, but more times than not it will make a big…
A 30-year-old UP signalman, Eric Doi, was a passenger in a company-owned truck, when his co-worker became distracted and lost control of the vehicle and rolled down a bank, and crashed into oncoming traffic on the highway. The signalman was left a quadriplegic (paralysis of all limbs, at least to some extent) and now needs…
A Knightdale driver was struck by a train at an intersection. The train track was only sporadically used and the woman was did not look right to check for oncoming traffic. She suffered only minor injuries.
My law partner John C. wrote an interesting top ten list of the ways trackmen and laborers, as well as other railroad workers, get hurt on CSX or Norfolk Southern (NS). I think you may find it interesting reading whether you have a railroad injury claim or not. Please click here to read the railroad…