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• Long Term Railroad Worker Diesel Exhaust Fume Exposure Linked to Asthma Lung Disease and Cancers-Part 2 of Two Reports

  Rick Shapiro | March 26, 2008 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  By: Rick Shapiro, Attorney Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton Law Firm focus on Federal Regulations and Railroad. Historical Knowledge of Health Dangers. There is a growing body of evidence that long-term railroad worker exposure to diesel exhaust fumes can lead to a condition called diesel asthma; a form of COPD, and additional evidence shows an increased incidence of lung cancer rates among such workers.

• Long Term Railroad Diesel Exhaust Fume Exposure Linked to Asthma Lung Disease and Cancers-Part 1 of Two Reports

  Rick Shapiro | March 25, 2008 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  This article discusses railroad worker long term diesel exhaust fume lung disorders, as well as medical studies relating to diesel fume lung diseases and lung cancers, and another related article in this series covers new federal regulations that are clamping down on excessive railroad locomotive engine diesel fumes, as well as historical railroad knowledge of diesel exhaust lung disease legal cases.

• How Railroad Injury Attorneys Analyze Ergonomics to Prove Railroad Negligence

  Rick Shapiro | February 03, 2008 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Also, when a railroad claims there is "no need" for an ergonomic assessment of a railroad worker job or task which has caused numerous injuries, showing the 1991 CSX ergonomic study of electricians totally refutes such nonsense.What does ergnonomics have to do with railroad worker injuries involving heavy lifting or even repetive stress injuries? Alot, and even the railroads held seminars in...

• Federal Regulatory Agencies-Are They Too Cozy with Big Business? CPSC Chairs Accepted Travel Monies From Manufacturers

  Rick Shapiro | November 04, 2007 9:48 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  According to published reports of the Washington Post, the chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been flying around the country to various events, all paid for by toy, appliance and children's furniture industries that they are supposed to be regulating! Many trips were covered by lobbying groups and lawyers representing these manufacturers.The trips were taken by Nancy Nord or...

• Norfolk Southern Issues "Injured at Work" Brochure Pressing Workers Not To Retain Lawyers

  Rick Shapiro | October 28, 2007 8:05 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  In the recent past, several insurance companies have issued controversial guides about what to do if you are in a car accident--the controversy arises from the not so subtle message NOT to retain an attorney. Actually, several lawsuits forced insurers to change or alter their materials. Now, Norfolk Southern, which is subject to claims falling under the Federal Employers' Liability Act...

• New Legislation Enacted Preserves State Injury and Death Actions--Congress Clarifies That Federal Rail Safety Act Does Not Preempt State Law Suits

  Rick Shapiro | August 10, 2007 6:21 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  I ended my 2006 article predicting: "pretty soon, even conservative federal legislators will recognize that the railroad preemption card has eroded, not promoted, railroad safety and the pendulum will swing back." Little did I know that approximately one year later Congress would act, and President Bush would sign, the new legislation, 49 U.S. Code Sec 20106, which clarifies that the Federal...

• Railroad FELA Verdict in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA)

  John Cooper | July 10, 2007 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  In August of 2003, John Wilson, a former conductor for The Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad, was injured when a fence pole hit his shoulder while he was on the side of a train car. Wilson, a United Transportation Union local chairman, filed a FELA claim against the railroad company he worked for because of this close clearance problem on the line servicing the Ford Motors plant. The...

• Loss of arm or leg injuries in railroad work

  John Cooper | June 02, 2007 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  Railroad workers face the real threat of having the loss of a limb occur as a result of unsafe job conditions on the railroad. I know this because I am a law partner in an injury firm whose practice is focused on injuries to railroad workers who get hurt on the job. There are over 150,000 people each year who lose a limb.Railroad workers face the real threat of having the loss of a limb occur...

• Radiation and Radioactive Exposures May Have Impacted Railroad Workers

  Rick Shapiro | June 01, 2007 11:50 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Our law firm, Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis, and Appleton, has a special concentration in railroad injury matters, as well as all forms of personal injury. We have recently been retained on cases involving railroad workers who have developed cancer and other radiation related illness and disease as a result of exposure to radiation and radioactive substances while working for railroads that...

• Train Accident Lawyer From Norfolk, Virginia (VA)

  John Cooper | May 15, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  I live in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), the home of Norfolk Southern Railroad. I have been doing automobile accident injury cases in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) for about a decade before I joined my current firm of Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis, and Appleton, PC. That was in 1997 and since that time I have been doing train wreck and FELA cases for railroad workers who get hurt on the...