A total of five new lawsuits against insurance companies over Hurricane Ike damage claims have been filed in Jefferson County District Court, June 21-25, 2010.
Over the past few years, the Southeast Texas Record has reported on several defendants escaping a Federal Employers Liability Act suit filed by Perry Ashworth, who had his leg severed when a railcar rolled over him at a yard inside the Port Arthur Huntsman refinery.
Whether a rail switching company can be defined as "railroad common carrier" and sued under the Federal Employers Liability Act is a legal quandary Texas appellate justices will soon answer.
NATCHEZ, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - A federal jury decided Monday that two Mississippi lawyers committed fraud against a railroad company they sued in a pair of asbestos lawsuits.
Union Pacific Railroad has no right to contact an employee to ascertain when he might be able to return to work, Judge Bob Wortham ruled Monday, March 1.
Peirce RICHMOND (Legal Newsline) - CSX Transportation's appeal in a case alleging a Pittsburgh law firm conspired with a radiologist to fabricate an asbestos exposure claim is drawing attention from tort reform groups and asbestos expert witnesses.
Almost a year after Judge Donald Floyd ruled that a local rail switching company cannot be defined as a "railroad common carrier" under the Federal Employers Liability Act, Beaumont justices have been tasked to examine his suit-ending decision.
When a Jefferson County judge granted a losing plaintiff a new trial "do over" without giving his reason, it was enough to keep the watchful eyes of tort reformers focused on Southeast Texas for another year.
WHEELING, W. Va. � Beaumont lawyers who packaged 15 CSX Transportation workers together as identical injury victims for litigation in West Virginia are now protesting that the same 15 should not be packaged together as identical victims of legal malpractice.
A railroad employee claims she tripped over a section of track after a switchboard operator switched the direction of the tracks without informing her.
AUSTIN � Reflective tape on a railroad crossing counts as a warning device, the Texas Supreme Court held when it wiped out a $5.1 million jury verdict against Union Pacific.