Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

• Airline layoffs and cut backs- is there any relationship to the recent plane crashes?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 28, 2009 12:25 PM | 1 CommentMiami, FL

  The economy is in freefall, and once again the airlines are in trouble. Of course, in recent times, with a few exceptions, the airlines and the airline industry are often in trouble. Last year, the...

• Airplane crash claims for U.S. citizens on domestic flights.

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | July 24, 2009 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The modern world is a complex place. Almost everything we wear, eat, and use has been made somewhere else from components that came from yet more places. As the world grows more complex and more...

• Right of Way on the Water: Which Side is Starboard?

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | July 24, 2009 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  When you're driving on a major highway, you should know to pass on the left, and keep slow traffic to the right. Although this is common knowledge to those on the road, the rules of the water are...

• Iowa Jury Awards 11.6 Million in Wrongful Death/Serious Injury Helicopter Crash

  Mark Bello | July 24, 2009 3:45 PM | 1 CommentVoices

  A Polk County, Iowa jury has awarded $11.6 in several injury and wrongful death verdicts. The lawsuit resulted from a June 2006 crash that killed a cameraman and seriously injured a film producer,...

• New Safety Guidelines Implemented After Muni Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 24, 2009 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Many people have been injured or killed in public transit accidents over the last four months. The most current incident is last week’s crash here in San Francisco, in which nearly fifty...

• Video of West Portal Muni Light Rail Crash Released

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2009 5:15 PM | 1 CommentSan Francisco, CA

  I've been keeping my readers updated on last Saturday's Muni Metro accident in the West Portal station, including today's earlier post about how switching to manual control before entering a station...

• Disengaged Safeguards Focus of Muni Light Rail Crash

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2009 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  It has been less than a week since two Muni Metro trains collided in San Francisco, injuring nearly fifty people. This crash has been only the latest in a series of accidents that have made the last...

• Cruise Ship Litigation: Defendants Allowed to Pick Forums, Lower SOLs and not Produce Employee Witnesses

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 21, 2009 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  It’s hard enough to go through the process of filing a law suit against a defendant that stays in one city, state, or country. Things get complicated if you try to proceed against a mobile...

• Two Lawsuits Filed Over Boston Trolley Accident

  Chrissie Cole | July 21, 2009 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  Two women injured in a Boston Trolley crash in May have sued the transit agency and the train operator. Rebecca Bishop, of Lynn, suffered a fractured pelvis in the crash. And Jennifer Levi, of...

• San Francisco Muni Light Rail Trains Collide

  Claude Wyle | July 21, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  In the last three months, nine people have been killed, and more than 170 injured in a series of crashes on the nation’s aging public transit systems. This horrific streak began in Boston, on...