Posts tagged Railroad Injuries (FELA)

• FELA Verdict in Nebraska

  John Inserra | August 13, 2007 8:31 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A Nebraska railroad worker won a nearly $2.8 million verdict against the Union Pacific Railroad for a workplace injury that went to trial last week at U.S. District Court in Omaha. Kendall Walsh lost the use of his right arm after it was crushed by a concrete railroad tie that fell off a pile at an Iowa railroad crossing two years ago. A jury sided with Walsh on Friday but found him partially...

• Pain and Its Causes

  John Inserra | May 22, 2006 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Thanks to my paraglegal, Christy Koch, for finding a list of articles from the International Study of Pain. The list of articles runs a gamet from pain in children, spinal pain, fibromyalgia pain, pain and depression, and on and on. The articles are scientific in nature, written by medical providers, whose object is to study pain.

• Kentucky FELA Verdict(2)

  John Inserra | March 15, 2007 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An Indiana man was awarded $8.4 million in damages after he was run over by three train cars and lost his left leg as a railroad worker in October 2004. The verdict was $9.3 million Tuesday against his former employer, Louisville & Indiana Railroad Co., for which the jury found the railroad 90 percent responsible.

• FELA Verdict

  John Inserra | June 26, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A Douglas County Nebraska jury this week ordered Union Pacific Railroad Company to pay $942,000 to a conductor for the knee injuries he suffered after falling on ice in a parking lot of a hotel where Union Pacific had paid for him to stay. For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Workplace Injuries and Discrimination.

• Possible New Knee Cartilage

  John Inserra | July 19, 2006 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I read a very encouraging article concerning the implantation of bioengineered cartilage in damaged knee joints. The authors of the study conclude:"We have shown for the first time that tissue-engineered cartilage implanted into knees can mature into an articular cartilage structure as early as 11 months after implantation of Hyalograft C," the authors conclude. "Development of osteoarthrosis,...

• Microdiscectomy Study

  John Inserra | January 09, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A study reported at Medscape: Not a large study but it seems to fall in line with recent trends for treatment of herniated discs.Study Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial.Objective: To assess effectiveness of microdiscectomy in lumbar disc herniation patients with 6 to 12 weeks of symptoms but no absolute indication for surgery.Summary of Background Data: There is limited evidence...

• Intervertebral Disk Replacement

  John Inserra | March 30, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A small study shows promise for intervertebral disk replacement rather than spinal fusion or artificial disk replacements. Preliminary experience in 5 patients with degenerative spine disease suggests that transplantation of fresh-frozen intervertebral disks preserved motion and stability of the spinal unit, despite some signs of mild degeneration in the disks over follow-up. Neurologic symptoms...

• Welcome to Jim Quilty

  John Inserra | November 03, 2006 3:07 PM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  We welcome Jim Quilty, newly retired International Vice President of TCU, to the firm as a field representative. IVP Jim Quilty retired at the end of July 2006 after 39 years of union leadership. Jim began his rail career on the Union Pacific Railroad in 1969 in Kansas City where he was a member of Lodge 1489. Jim was General Chairman of System Board 106 from 1992 until elected to assume his...

• FELA Verdict in Colorado Upheld

  John Inserra | June 09, 2006 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  In a FELA case, the Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a jury's decision to award a Union Pacific conductor, out of North Platte Nebraska, $6 million for injuries he suffered in a fall down the stairs of a locomotive. The claimant suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the fall in August 1998. A district court jury ruled that the Omaha, Neb.-based railroad was at fault...

• US Supreme Court

  John Inserra | June 26, 2006 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsOmaha, NE Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  On May 15, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted review in the case of NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. V. SORRELL :170 S.W.3d 35 CA-MO, E. Dist; limiting the review to whether the court below erred in determining that the causation standard for employee contributory negligence under the Federal Employers Liability Act ("FELA ") differs from the causation standard for railroad negligence. The...