FELA Lawsuit

Conductor Billy Bob Joliff filed a Federal Employer’s Liability Act suit against his employer CSX Transportation in St. Clair County Circuit Court on October 24, 2007. He is seeking damages in excess of $100,000 for injuries, pain, suffering, lost earnings and medical expenses. He claims that while he was employed with CSX Transportation, he was […]

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Railroad worker, William Campbell, is an employee for CSX Transportation. According to the Madison St. Clair Record, Campbell filed a Federal Employers’ Liability Act suit against his employer in the U.S. District Court on November 2, 2007. Campbell is alleging neck and back injuries after being exposed to repetitive trauma throughout the course of his […]

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On Oct. 1, 2006, Robert Vail, a Kansas City Southern Railway employee, was working for the railroad when he slipped and tripped, twisting his leg while “walking down some steps when exiting the locomotive.” A few weeks later, on Oct. 20, 2006, Vail twisted his leg while attempting “to set a hand brake on the […]

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CSX Transportation has been taken to court recently by a conductor who claims his injuries are a product of his working environment. William Campbell, the conductor suing CSX, states that his neck and back injuries are a direct product of the repetitive trama that he had to endure over his years as a conductor for […]

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More than 400 people turned out on October 5, 2007 to object to a new light rail line in South Los Angeles. Residents came to tell California Public Utilities Commissioner Timothy Simon and an administrative law judge that running trains at street level along an old railroad right of way would lead to deaths and […]

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