Success Stories

Derek Beach, age 32, was working as a mechanic aboard the Robert F. Bauer, a drilling vessel owned and operated by Global Santa Fe Drilling Company.  The Bauer was engaged in oil drilling activities in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa.  Beach was ordered to manually transport an assembly of pipes and […]

A recent Federal Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) decision highlights the tactics railroads use against their employees and one possible statutory remedy for those tactics.  Jonette Nagra v. National R.R. Passenger Corp., Case No. 2012-FRS-74 (10/29/2013). ​ Amtrak Engineer, Jonette Nagra, sustained a neck injury in a train/truck collision while working for Amtrak. 

Not every case requires a lawsuit, many of which cost tens of thousands of dollars in expenses and can drag on for years due to delay tactics.  When liability is clear and the medical facts are developed quickly, some cases can be fast-tracked for settlement without entering into expensive and time-consuming litigation. ​ On April

A locomotive engineer lost his railroad career after rendering over 30 years of service to his Railroad Company.  On the day of the accident, the engineer’s locomotive engine and train collided with a tractor-trailer, which had become hung-up/high-centered on the Bellevue Road “humped” railroad grade crossing in Waskom, Texas, located just across the border from Shreveport,

A life-long locomotive engineer sustained a severe shoulder injury when the locomotive engine and train he was operating collided with asphalt-resurfacing construction equipment being operated and owned by a Louisiana Construction Company at a railroad crossing in Gonzales, Louisiana. On the day of this accident, as the engineer approached the railroad crossing in question, he

Conductor requires back surgery after being injured in the Norfolk Southern Lula Yard, Lula, Georgia – $596,681.41 verdict after a 5 day trial. James Hugh Schumpert was working as a conductor for Norfolk Southern Railway Company, transporting a train from Inman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia to a Toyota facility in Commerce, Georgia.  When the crew

This Federal Employer’s Liability Act [“FELA”], 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. action instituted by NOPB’s railroad machinist, Joey McLeod, came for trial on May 21, 2012.  Mr. McLeod’s claims arose from an on-duty injury he sustained while working for NOPB on September 24, 2009.  ​ On that date, Mr. McLeod sustained an injury to his lumbar

William Mingledorff was working as an engineer at the Southover Yard in Savannah, Georgia.  On the day of the accident, Mr. Mingledorff received instructions from his yardmaster to move his engines onto track A05.  When he was within 5 car lengths of coupling to the cars in this track, Mr. Mingledorff’s conductor noticed cars being

20 year New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Company locomotive engineer Michael Dickerson sustained career-ending neck and right knee injuries when the locomotive he was operating in a shoving movement collided with a cut of standing cars.   At the time of the collision, a series of “car counts” were being communicated to Mr. Dickerson by radio.  The

Well before the terrible train collision, the Defendant Railroad Company had contracted with a weather risk management service, WeatherData Services, Inc., to monitor all its mainline railroad tracks in the United States for severe weather and to issue appropriate weather warnings to the railroad company’s National Rail Traffic Control Center.   On the day of