In what could be one of the largest verdicts in Grady County in recent history, a jury awarded Plaintiff Terrie L. Smith, Chickasha, $1.75 million for lost earning capacity and medical bills from a March 2009 accident.
A 4 mph jolt translated into a $3.18 million verdict for a Burlington Northern engineer who injured his back. A unanimous St. Louis County jury made the award to John Walsh after a four-day trial. Walsh was injured when another train struck the one he was working on.
An injured railroad worker has reached a nearly $2.3 million settlement with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. in St. Louis City Circuit Court.
Timothy Sorrell, a railroad trackman, was injured on November 1, 1999 when the dump truck he was driving for his employer, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, was forced off a county road by a worker driving a truck. Mr. Sorrell's truck, filled with 15 pounds of asphalt, rolled off the road causing him to sustain neck and back injuries. We tried Mr. Sorrell's case in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis and a jury awarded Mr. Sorrell $1.5 Million in damages on November 7, 2003.
In one of the first railroad cases to reach trial since the state changed its tort laws, a $1.05 million jury verdict has attorneys split on how St. Louis County will handle a deluge of corporate injury cases.
A $4.5 million settlement has been reached in the case of a Union Pacific railroad employee who suffered severe injuries, including an above-the-knee amputation of his leg, when he became trapped beneath the wheel of a locomotive and dragged for 20 feet or more.
In January, Partner Nelson G. Wolff won a verdict in the City of St. Louis, Shepherd v. Union Pacific, on behalf of a conductor who fell and suffered foot injuries while walking down the steps inside his locomotive. The engine, like many engines in service in North America, was not equipped with hand rails or grab irons. The railroad claimed that since the FRA did not require handrails to be installed, it did not need to install any device to protect workers, even though it knew that some workers would slip and could avoid injury if a handhold were provided. The railroad also accused its employee of causing his own injuries by failing to keep a careful lookout. The jury's verdict exceeded $700,000.
On October 1, 2007, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of another Schlichter Bogard & Denton client, affirming a $6 million judgment for an injured Union Pacific track worker, thus ending a 4 year long saga. The employee had been struck in the hand by an AMTRAK train after he was forced to get out of his Union Pacific track machine on an adjacent track to fix a defective clamp. The worker required surgeries to his hand, shoulder and spine, resulting in permanent disability. During the years leading to the trial, the railroads denied responsibility and accused the worker of contributory negligence. After overwhelming evidence of the railroads' negligence was introduced at trial, the defendants attempted admit partial responsibility. However, the jury held the railroads to be 100% responsible.
In a major victory for railroad workers nationwide in the U.S. Supreme Court, Schlichter Bogard & Denton was successful in preserving the favorable law on causation of injuries to railroad workers. In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court adopted the arguments made by our firm in ruling that the FELA law for injured railroad workers should not be changed to be more restrictive to those workers.
A St. Louis jury awarded $1.5 million in damages on Nov. 7 to a railroad trackman that suffered injuries to his neck and spine after his dump truck rolled over.
Jerome Schlichter and his six-lawyer St. Louis law firm have amassed quite a courtroom record over the past two years — 12 jury trials against railroad companies and 12 victories.
When an unhinged metal flag smacked conductor Greg Haskin in the head, his employer, Union Pacific Corp., dismissed the injury as a superficial scalp wound.
A jury in Wichita awarded a Junction City resident more than $800,000 on Monday for injuries caused while working for Union Pacific Railroad.
A St. Louis City Circuit Court jury recently awarded a Missouri resident $2.975 million against a trucking company, whose truck caused an accident that injured him and ended his career.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - An incident that left one man dead and another seriously injured in Paragould on. Aug. 18, 2000, was settled by a trial jury Friday in the. St. Louis, Mo., Circuit Court.
St Louis law firm, Schlichter Bogard & Denton, receive top 3 railroad injury verdicts.
"It's kind of like a tug of war – the other side lets go unexpectedly so you fall backwards," described Richard Zalasky, an attorney for an injured railroad switchman who recently received a $1.6 million award from a St. Louis jury.
Thomas Ramsey, 52, an engineer for the railroad, fell on the ice on the platform of a locomotive and seriously injured his back.
A $1.9 million judgment has been handed down by a Scotts Bluff County District Court jury for a former Union Pacific engineer who was injured on the job.
ST.LOUIS, Mo. - The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a jury's verdict that awarded Kenneth C. Holley just over $1 million against Union Pacific Railroad for injuries received Jan. 2, 1990 in a Little Rock, Ark., shop.
A St. Louis City jury awarded $4.1 million to a Clinton, Iowa, locomotive engineer who was injured in a slow-motion train derailment.
A Scotts Bluff District Court jury Thursday awarded a Morrill man $900,000 for an injury he sustained in 1994 while working for Union Pacific Railroad.
ST.LOUIS, Mo. - A jury in St. Louis has awarded $1.7 Million to injured railroad conductor, Tommy Calloway. The Jury reached the verdict after a one week trial which ended Friday.