FELA, or the Federal Employment Liability Act assures railroad employees a safe work place and gives them and their families the right to recover compensation if injured in a railroad related accident. Under FELA, injured employees can seek compensation for wage loss, future wage loss, medical expenses and treatments, pain and suffering, and for partial or permanent disability. All railroad solvent exposure lawsuits have been filed under FELA.
Norfolk Southern the target of FELA suit
-April 25, 2005
The widow of a Norfolk Southern Railway worker has filed a Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) suit blaming the railroad for her husband's cancer death.
While employed by Norfolk Southern, the widow claims her husband was exposed to significant and dangerous concentrations of diesel fumes and other toxic substances which caused permanent lung injuries. In the complaint, the FELA suit says he suffered permanent injuries to his lungs and respiratory system, bladder cancer, severe and permanent injuries with pendant pain, mental anguish, dementia, torment, fear of cancer, loss of enjoyment of life, change of lifestyle, diminished mental capacity and medical expenses.
Seeking damages in excess of $150,000, the widow is trying to recover all costs of the FELA suit plus losses of her husband's wages and benefits. She claims Norfolk Southern was negligent by failing to provide her husband with proper protective gear and it failed to warn him of the dangers presented by the fumes.For more information on FELA lawsuits, please contact us to confer with a personal injury lawyer.