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2. Personal injury lawyer - Wikipedia

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   A personal injury lawyer is a lawyer who provides legal services to those who claim to have been injured, physically or psychologically, as a result of the negligence of another person, company, government agency or any entity. Personal injury lawyers primarily practice in the area of law known as tort law.

3. List of American railroad accidents - Wikipedia

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   Four killed in a head-on collision of freights near Pineola, Florida. Collision may have been averted had crews agreed to use new radios but refused to unless their pay was increased [168] 1958 Newark Bay rail accident, Bayonne, New Jersey; 48 killed plus 48 injured [169] [170] 1959 Meldrim trestle disaster, Meldrim, Georgia; 23 killed [171] [172]

4. Federal Employers Liability Act - Wikipedia

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   Fatal car accident in Spencerport, New York, October 20, 1917. Congress passed FELA in response to the high number of railroad deaths in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Under FELA, railroad workers who are not covered by regular workers' compensation laws are able to sue companies over their injury claims.

5. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. - Wikipedia

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   Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...

6. Lists of rail accidents - Wikipedia

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   Tram accident; Train-pedestrian fatalities This page was last edited on 26 July 2024, at 20:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

7. 1837 Suffolk head-on collision - Wikipedia

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   An engraving of the accident was created in 1840 for the book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents.The official casualty list (as listed in the book) was that four had died (one as a result of getting run over by the rescue train), thirteen were severely wounded, and that thirty or more had been slightly injured.