FELA Lawsuit

The passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 passed through the Senate recently, giving Amtrak $1.9 billion a year for six years.
These funds provides states the chance to start passenger rail service in an attempt to remove cars from the road and connect towns and cities more effectively. Also, New Jersey railroads can be […]

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Railroad workers who have been injured on the job do not have the benefits of no-fault worker’s compensation insurance. They are protected by the Federal Employers Liability Act of 1908 (FELA). 
 
Unlike workers’ compensation, FELA does not cover no-fault injuries.  FELA requires the injured worker to prove that the injury was caused by the negligence […]

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  Just this past week, the Madison St. Clair Record reported a story of another railroad worker injured as a result of cumulative trauma and excessive whole body trauma.  Thanks to the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA), Eddie E. McCandrew, a locomotive engineer for Illinois Central Railroad since 1994, may be able to recover damages […]

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We live in Texas. My husband works for Union Pacific Railroad. He was injured while the train he was operating was just across the border in Louisiana. Would we need to file the FELA case in Louisiana or Texas? If Louisiana, would you still be able to help me or would I need to find […]

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In a story run in the Madison Record in
Illinois on May 30 of this year, reporter Ann Knef detailed a claim filed by railroad worker Russell R. Baucum against his employer, Union Pacific.  In the complaint, Baucum claims that he sustained several severe and permanent injuries while repairing railroad tracks in December of 2006.  […]

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