Ex-Railroad Worker is Awarded $4.5 Million over Painful Slip

Veritas Legal Media - 757-582-1836 veritaslegalmedia@hotmail.com BODY – Tripping on the railroad may not seem like obvious grounds for a lawsuit against your employer. But when the employer is a railroad company that has allowed weeds to grow so high that the dangers are not readily apparent, it’s the grounds for a multi-million dollar verdict, a jury in Roanoke, Virginia decided. See this video of a Norfolk Southern derailment. The jury awarded $4.5 million to former Norfolk Southern Corp...
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Claiming for a Slip and Fall Injury

Veritas Legal Media - 757-582-1836 - veritaslegalmedia@hotmail.com A case that was settled last year against PetSmart in Newport News, Virginia was a high profile example of a slip and fall lawsuit. In Feb. 2011, PetSmart settled a federal lawsuit over allegations that employees at its Newport News store failed to clean up dog feces, leading a customer to slip and injure himself. The pet supply store and Robert W. Holloway of Poquoson, VA reached an agreement to avoid trial. It's not known h...
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