Posts tagged metro

• Metrolink Train Crash: Diverging Points Of View

  Brett Emison | July 21, 2011 11:30 AM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  I wrote earlier this week about the heart wrenching decisions that were forced upon Judge Peter D. Lichtman due to a railroad industry subsidy / tort reform damage cap that failed to provide even...

• LA Metrolink Damage Caps: More Than 120 "Sophie's Choices"

  Brett Emison | July 18, 2011 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  I have written before on the perils of tort reform including the injustice of arbitrary damage caps instituted by politicians currying favors rather than by jury's who actually hear evidence. The...

• Law Makers Take Aim At Damage Cap In Metrolink Train Crash

  Brett Emison | September 07, 2010 10:58 AM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Lawmakers are working to change a federal law that could limit the amount of damages paid to crash victims who were injured in a Metrolink train crash near Chatsworth in September 2008. Twenty-five...

• 19 Injured When Bus and Train Collide In Houston, TX

  Brett Emison | March 16, 2010 8:27 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The Associated Press and tv station KENS have reported that a Houston Metro bus and light rail train crashed, injuring 19 people. This is the second bus/train crash in Houston at the same...

• Bob Langdon Receives Awards

  Brett Emison | September 16, 2009 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Langdon & Emison congratulates Bob Langdon on receiving the Thomas Strong Trial Attorney Award and recognition as a Dean of the Trial Bar. The Thomas Strong Trial Attorney Award is given by...