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| Posted: Sep.22.2008 @ 4:54 pm |
Riverside woman’s suit is the first of more than100 to go on
trial in the 2002 Placentia wreck.
By Caitlin Liu and Christine Hanley
A Riverside woman was awarded nearly $9 million Wednesday by
an Orange County jury for injuries-primarily psychological-she suffered in a
2002 crash between a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train that killed
three people and injured more than 260.
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| Posted: Sep.22.2008 @ 4:46 pm | Lasted edited: Sep.22.2008 @ 3:52 pm |
Plaintiff was among 32 passengers injured in Burbank wreck blamed on a driver for the firm.
By Jean Guccione
Times Staff Writer
A jury has ordered Universal Studios to pay $12 million to a woman who was seriously
injured in a 2003 Metrolink crash in Burbank, finding that one of the company's truck
drivers caused the collision.
The verdict is the first against the entertainment giant since the same jury last month
found the company liable for the crash that killed two people and injured 32 others.
Metrolink was also sued for its role in the Jan. 6, 2003, crash but entered into
confidential settlements with the victims before the cases went to trial.
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| Posted: Sep.19.2008 @ 7:23 pm |
As a governmental agency, lawyers noted, Metrolink cannot be subjected to
punitive damages in any civil action - a situation those lawyers said likely
protects it from a bankruptcy situation. A spokesman for Metrolink said the
agency would not be making any comments on potential legal issues.
Attorney Jerome
Ringler, who served as lead counsel for victims of a Metrolink train
derailment in Placentia in 2002, those in a Burbank derailment in 2003, and in
the Glendale derailment in 2005, said the Chatsworth crash could expose further
fault with Metrolink.
"I suspect the real reason these tragedies occurred is due to either
simple inattentivenesss on the part of the engineers or a failure on the part
of the railrood industry to allow these engineers adequate rest between shifts
so that these kind of tragedies could be avoided," Ringler said.
"This is a horrible tragedy. They are facing hundreds upon hundreds of
millions of dollars of exposure."
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| Posted: Sep.19.2008 @ 5:22 pm |
LA's Metro link has screwed-up before. Here's an article from the last time they did it.
Metrolink worker sued Burlington Northern Santa Fe, saying his alcoholism
returned after the fatal 2002 Placentia collision.
A metrolink conductor
who said his drinking problems resumed after the Placentia train crash in 2002
will receive $8.5 million to settle his lawsuit against one of the nations
largest railroads.
Patrick Phillips of Riverside agreed Tuesday to settle his suit against
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. The case was set to go to trial next
week in Orange County Superior Court.
Phillips, now 52, suffered minor head injuries the morning of April 23,
2002 when a Burlington Northern Freight train crashed into a Metrolink commuter
train in Placentia. Three people died and more than 260 were injured in the
early morning crash.
Though his injuries were slight, the conductor alleged that the trauma
was serious enough to trigger a resurgence of his severe alcoholism, which he
said he had controlled since rehabilitation in the early 1990's.
"I have never seen a case like this in 30 years, yet it is indeed what
happened here," said Jerome L. Ringler, Phillips' attorney.
"We had extensive medical evaluations by a variety of neurological
specialists. All were in accord that his injury, although minor, changed his
behavior."
After the train crash, Phillips was hospitalized for evaluation but
released about two hours later, Ringler said. In the months after the crash,
however, Phillips allegedly resumed his alcohol abuse, resulting in at least two
other hospitalizations.
Ringler said his client was finally diagnosed with alcohol-related
dementia, a sever mental deficiency.
Phillips, who is now disabled after working 12 years for Metrolink, was
unavailable for comment. He is living with a sister in Riverside.
Under terms of the settlement, Phillips will receive $8.5 million,
including interest, paid out over 20 years. The amount is worth about $4.5
million in today's dollars.
Officials for Burlington Northern Santa Fe, one
of the nations four largest railroads, confirmed the settlement but declined to
discuss the case.
Phillips' lawsuit is one of more than 100 Civil cases stemming from the
Placentia crash, which federal investigators said was caused by an inattentive
Burlington Norther crew that missed a warning signal.
The lawsuits allege the collision could have been prevented by an
automatic braking system, long sought by the federal National Transportation
Safety Board.
They also contend that the freight train crew was fatigued by
overwork and that the Burlington Northern conductor had a history of losing
track of signals.
In December, an Orange County jury awarded Pamela Macek, 53, also of
Riverside, about $9 million in damages for psychological and physical injuries
suffered in the crash. Her case was the first to go to trial.
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| Posted: Sep.18.2008 @ 12:19 pm |
Special Message for Victims of Chatsworth Metrolink Disaster
On September 12, 2008, an unprecedented tragedy occurred in Chatsworth,
California when Metrolink Train #111 struck a Union Pacific freight
train which was traveling on the same tracks. Our hearts go out to the
victims. But this tragedy should not have happened. It happened because
of human error on the part of Metrolink employees. Unfortunately, as
the lawyers of RKA know well, human error by railroad engineers is not
at all unique as a cause of commuter rail disasters.
Jerome L. Ringler has greater experience in representing victims of
commuter rail and fright train disasters than any other lawyer in the
State of California, if not the country. He has served as lead counsel
in every one of the largest commuter rail disasters which have occurred
in Southern California in the past 10 years.
In the Placentia Commuter Rail Disaster of 2003, Mr. Ringler was
appointed by the Court as lead counsel for all of the Plaintiffs. He
was requested by all of the lawyers representing individuals injured or
killed in that incident to try the first case. That case resulted in
the largest verdict for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ever rendered by
a jury in the United States. That verdict, which was for $9 million, is
detailed below in the multimedia section.
In the Burbank Commuter Rail Disaster, which also occurred in 2003, Mr.
Ringler was again appointed by the Court to serve as lead counsel. In
that capacity he was given the responsibility to try the entire
liability (i.e., fault) case for all of the victims. In other words,
every one of the dozens of lawyers who represented individual victims
in that disaster trusted Mr. Ringler to try the liability phase for
them, knowing that their clients would only recover if Mr. Ringler was
successful. He was. In fact, Mr. Ringler not only obtained a favorable
verdict for all of the plaintiffs, he obtained a $12 million verdict
for his own client as well. This verdict was the largest in the State
of California for a person with the type of injuries Mr. Ringler's
client had suffered. This verdict is detailed below in the multimedia
section.
Mr. Ringler is currently lead counsel for all plaintiffs in the
Glendale Metrolink Derailment Disaster of 2005. This incident was,
before September 12, 2008, the largest Metrolink disaster in history.
Interestingly, in that case (which involves 11 deaths and dozens of
serious injuries), Mr. Ringler has, against all odds, developed
testimony proving that, even though a mentally-ill person placed a jeep
across the tracks that the Metrolink train was traveling upon, human
error on the part of the Metrolink engineer prevented him from stopping
the train before hitting the jeep, which caused the train to derail. In
other words, while the jeep certainly never should have been on the
tracks, the Metrolink engineer would have been able to stop the train
before ever striking the jeep had he only been paying proper attention.
That case is scheduled to go to trial on June 8, 2009, with Mr. Ringler
as lead counsel.
The verdicts detailed on this page all relate to railroad litigation.
However, Mr. Ringler has achieved enormous, record-breaking monetary
awards across California in a variety of complex areas. Those
accomplishments are detailed elsewhere in this website. To see them,
click here.
If you or a loved one has suffered injury or death as a result of the
horrific Chatsworth Metrolink Disaster, we are available to discuss
your rights with you confidentially and at no charge.
Please feel free to contact us at your convenience. Ask for Mr. Ringler,or any of his partners, at (213) 473-1900.
Train Accident Attorneys, Train Accident Lawyers, Metrolink Accident Attorneys
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| Posted: May.21.2008 @ 1:46 pm | Lasted edited: Sep.22.2008 @ 3:52 pm |
A college student claims Lindsay Lohan snatched her blond mink coat from a nightclub and kept it for more than two weeks. Maria Markova sued Lohan in New York County Court.
Markova claims the actress took the coat from the Chelsea nightclub 1 Oak on Jan. 26. Markova's attorney, Merrill Cohen, told reporters that after the coat disappeared, Markova saw Lohan wearing it at in a photo in OK! Magazine.
Cohen told the Philadelphia Daily News that he demanded the coat returned, and Lohan did return it, fouled by the odor of cigarette smoke. |
| Posted: May.12.2008 @ 12:59 pm | Lasted edited: Sep.22.2008 @ 3:52 pm |
The inventor of color-compatible night-vision
goggles lacks standing to sue the government for compensation under the
Invention Secrecy Act, after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
withheld his patent for 14 years on "national security" grounds, the
Court of Federal Claims ruled.
Richard Cohen, an inventor with Honeywell International, filed a patent
application in 1985 for "night vision goggles compatible with full
color display." The PTO forwarded his application to defense agencies,
and the Department of the Navy requested a secrecy order to keep his
application under wraps.
When the order was lifted in 2000, Honeywell experienced rejection
after rejection of its original and new patent applications. The
company blamed the rejection of a related 2002 patent application on
the 14-year delay, and sought compensation under the Invention Secrecy
Act.
But Honeywell's newer patent was not based on the original patent, so
Honeywell failed to establish a causal link between the secrecy order
and the company's alleged damages. http://www.dailybarnews.com/entry/Inventor-Of-Secret-Goggles-Cant-Sue-Government
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| Posted: May.12.2008 @ 12:57 pm | Lasted edited: Sep.22.2008 @ 3:53 pm |
A comic book auctioneer - Jay Parrino's The Mint -
duped a collector for five comic books worth a total $1 million, and
threatened to kill him if he took legal action about it, the collector
claims in Jackson County Court.
Plaintiff Jaquiez Douglas claims he inherited the comic book collection
of his late father, which included first editions from the 1930s in
mint collection. Among them, he says, were Action Comic No. 1 of 1938,
Detective Comic Nos. 1 and 27 of 1939, The Incredible Hulk No. 1 of
1962 and X-Men No. 1 of 1963.
Defendant Lee Parrino, of Lee's Summit, runs his store, Jay Parrino's The Mint, in Blue Springs, the complaint states.
Douglas claims Parrino offered to pay him "top dollar" for items from
Douglas' collection, then after accepting delivery of 46 books, claimed
the five books above "were missing." But Douglas says Parrino is
advertising for sale on its Web site Action Comic No. 1 and Detective
Comic No. 1.
Douglas claims Parrino has all 46 comic books, and that "When Douglas
told Defendant Jay Parrino he would initiate legal action to recover
the comic books, Defendant Jay Parrino threatened Douglas and said if
Douglas tried 'to make trouble' then Defendant Jay Parrino 'would have
[Douglas] knocked off.'" (Bracketed word in brackets in complaint.)
Douglas says he and his attorneys have tried to get the police to
intervene, but "law enforcement personnel have indicated on each
occasion that this is a civil matter and have refused to take action."
http://www.clickthelaw.com/entry/Theft-Of-1-Million-In-Comics-Followed-By-Death-Threat |
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