Legal Options for Railroad Workers With Lung Cancer

If you worked as a railroader before 1982, you may have been exposed to a harmful material called asbestos. Asbestos was widely used in equipment and buildings in the railroad industry despite manufacturers and railroad companies knowing that it can have dangerous effects. The unfortunate result: thousands of former railroaders have asbestos-related diseases and cancers.
Isidro Almendarez sits next to his wife Irma in their Lockhart home. The former construction worker struggled to make sure his employer documented a hand injury and fought a serious infection as a result.

In Texas, Injured Workers Struggle To Be Counted

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Oct. 2, 2015 On any given day across Texas, truck drivers might crash their vehicles, construction workers tumble from scaffolding or refinery workers inhale nauseating fumes. But many of their injuries will be documented poorly by employers and insurance companies. Some will go unreported entirely — as if they never

Jury Awards $7.5 Million to Railroad Worker With Leukemia

On September 28, 2016, a jury in Madison County, Illinois entered a unanimous verdict in the amount of $7.5 million against Union Pacific Railroad Co.  The case was filed by a railroad worker who developed acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) as a result of exposure to creosote on railroad ties he installed over the course of

Mo. Supreme Court Rules Railroad Injury Judgment not Subject to Taxes

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