West Virginia Police and investigators are still baffled at why a minivan drove into the path of a train in Huntington, West Virginia on Tuesday. The van held two sisters, Samantha Fields, 38, ad Alberta Lewis, 41, and left two teenaged girls, Abbie Fields, 16, and Kayla Frye, 17, in critical condition. Both girls are…
Most of the attorneys practicing railroad personal injury or wrongful death law have heard of the Geneva Convention, which resulted from efforts of the International Labour Office, based in Geneva, Switzerland. However, many railroad attorneys and even consumers in the United States do not realize that the International Labour office (ILO) continues to set industrial…
I posted a complete article on Injuryboard about Pennsylvania FELA attorneys Mike Olley and David Lockard, who reported an important 2 million dollar FELA personal injury verdict in favor of railroad engineer that was returned May 2008, in Philadelphia state court in a case called Lockley v. CSX. Lockley sued CSX alleging that the locomotive’s seats…
An 84-year-old Virginian man may have simply not been paying attention when he drove in front of a freight train on Monday. The train struck the passenger side of this car and killed the man.
John C., who together with other lawyers at the firm focuses his practice on railroad safety issues, has written an article about his observations about a Portsmouth, Virginia (VA) intersection where the road meets the rail. To check out this article on railroad grade crossing accidents and issues, please click here to learn more about…