FELA Lawsuit

A Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) suit was filed this week against the Illinois Central Railroad. Gary Neeble, a former employee, has devoted 31 years of work to the railroad and now claims that repeated exposure to loud sounds and high decibel levels has caused his hearing loss. During his time working for the railroad, […]

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A FELA lawsuit has been filed against Timothy Dobler. One of Dobler’s employees, Eugenia Johnson-Jones claims that while she was attempting to drop off crew members, the Alton & Southern vehicle she was operating was struck by Dobler.
Johnson-Jones claims that Dobler failed to control his vehicle, was driving at excessive speeds, and failed to yield the […]

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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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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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Last Thursday, The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee heard testimony from rail union employees from Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads. They testified that their supervisors discouraged them from reporting serious accidents or even delayed treatment for their injuries.
Harassment and intimidation of rail workers is used by .some railroads to coerce employees not to report […]

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