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This complex federal litigation required our law firm to institute civil actions against five corporations when our client, a freight conductor, sustained an electrical shock while attempting to throw a railroad switch.  The lawsuit was brought against our client’s railroad employer, the railroad employer’s parent company, the electric security fence company, the on-site private security […]

At the time of his career ending injury, the Plaintiff, Glenn R. Belle, age 43, was a locomotive engineer employed by the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad.  Mr. Belle had worked for the New Orleans Public Belt for over 10 years.   On the date of his injury, Mr. Belle was engaged in a railroad shoving operation.

William Peacock and Lester Cribbs were working as the brakeman and conductor on a freight train traveling from Waycross, Georgia.  Just north of Homerville, Georgia, the train struck a tractor/trailer log truck that was attempting to cross the tracks.  The tractor made it across the tracks, but the trailer with the logs was on the

Special recognition to Lead Counsel, Bob Tramuto of the Jones Granger Firm in Houston, Texas for selecting our firm as Co-counsel. This civil action arose under the provisions of the Federal Employer’s Liability Act (“FELA”), 45 U.S.C. § 51, et seq., which is the exclusive remedy to recover for our client’s career-ending on-duty injury sustained while

A 40 year old chief engineer aboard an offshore diving vessel suffered terrible third degree burn injuries when the diving support vessel he was aboard exploded in the Gulf of Mexico during a pipeline abandonment project.  The engineer survived the explosion and was air-lifted to Our Lady of Lourdes in Lafayette, Louisiana where he received treatment

A lifelong railroad conductor sustained fatal third degree burns covering nearly 100% of his body in a fiery explosion when the freight train he was working aboard collided with a gasoline tanker truck hauling over 8,000 gallons of petroleum at a railroad crossing in Chalmette, Louisiana.  Local St. Bernard Parish Deputies courageously rendered critical first