In Welsh v. Amtrak, venued in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, a former Amtrak employee filed two FELA claims alleging injuries to his shoulder, requiring arthroscopy, and back/neck, requiring a cervical decompression and fusion. The trial Court granted...
In Palumbo v. Transit Technologies, LLC, 144 A.D.3d 773 (2d Dep’t 2016), plaintiff was working at an elevated subway station, feeding cable into a man-made permanent trench that adjoined the train tracks. The trench was approximately three feet wide by two feet...
In Vega v MTA, a construction worker claimed catastrophic damages resulting from a crushed and partially amputated finger. His finger tip was struck by a piece of falling concrete. After it was re-attached in the hospital, plaintiff had two more surgeries, a fusion of...
In connection with its continuing representation of Amtrak in the MDL arising out of the May 12, 2015 derailment in Philadelphia, PA, LCBF negotiated a $265 million global resolution with the Plaintiffs’ Management Committee. On October 27, 2016, U.S. District...
In Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corp., 14-CV-10009 (AT) (S.D.N.Y.), the plaintiff claimed she was discharged from her employment at Amtrak, in retaliation for having reported an altercation with her supervisor, in violation of the Federal Railroad Safety...
