By Randy Appleton, Railroad Accident and FELA Lawyer

My colleague Rick Shapiro has written a new post for our firm’s Norfolk, Portsmouth and Hampton, VA Injuryboard blog site about a $10 million settlement reached in a wrongful death lawsuit related to the death of a worker who was exposed to asbestos in a Kansas City, Missouri (MO), courthouse. The case was brought by the estate of  Nancy Lopez, a woman who had worked for 27 years in the Jackson County Courthouse before her death of mesothelioma. Her family sued a firm of engineers who they accused of mishandling asbestos. Many of our cases involve exposure to asbestos on the railroads.

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About the Editors: The Virginia- and Carolina-based attorneys at Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton have long histories of representing railroad workers in FELA and other railroad injury cases and of helping victims of rail crossing accidents. Lawyers at our firm have served as chairmen of the railroad section of the American Association for Justice, the largest national victim’s injury attorney organization, and one of our attorneys wrote a major legal encyclopedia section on railroad safety litigation. Check out our railroad injury case results to see for yourself. Be sure to get your free reports about railroad injury, disease and wrongful death FELA cases: The Do’s and Don’ts When Injured at a Railroad — Yours FELA Rights and What Railroad Claim Agents Won’t Tell You (But You Must Know). Also, our railroad injury lawyers proudly moderate the Yardlimits Railroad Community Forum and donate to the Fallen Brother Fund.

A simple ankle sprain has cost Amtrak about $160,000 after it was determined that the railroad wrongfully disciplined a worker simply for reporting an on-duty injury. To learn more, check out this article.