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In late April 2008, an Ohio state court jury ordered Conrail to pay $2.6 million to its former locomotive engineer, for negligently causing his diesel exhaust asthma lung disease. Frank Battaglia, worked in the Detroit, Michigan rail yards for Conrail for 23 years as a railroad engineer, before he was eventually diagnosed with diesel exhaust fume asthma.

Note: see also medical malpractice, automobile accident categories. Here's a true story that you won't believe: a 73 year old Reverend was in the operating room for back surgery in Hawaii. His surgeon, Dr. Ricketson, realized once he had begun the surgery that the two titanium rods he needed for the procedure were nowhere to be found. He would need to wait two hours to get the rods from the medical supply company, but he noticed that the shaft of the screwdriver he was using was "about" the right size. He testified the patient would lose a lot of blood if he hadn't acted quickly.

Note: see also Mass Transit category. 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 routinely transported cargo into and out of nuclear weapons facilities while working as railroad engineers, conductors or even as railroad track maintenance workers. In a number of areas of the country, nuclear weapon facilities required all kinds of uranium and radioactive material in order to build the often secret nuclear weapons. It is very common to have the primary source of transport of these materials and byproducts to be by railroad/train.

Note: see also automobile accident category.. Honda Motor Company recently announced that it is going to offer an airbag on one of its expensive Honda Gold Wing motorcycles for the next model year....

Note: see also automobile accidents category. Big rigs, large trucks, semis, tractor trailers, and 18 wheelers are some of the ways that we refer to the giant, automotive machinery that runs...

Note: see also Medical Malpractice category. One of the legislative changes that many states need to enact is to require a minimum amount of insurance for all medical professionals, hospitals and nursing homes. It appears to me that the states are going to catch up fast with these nursing homes that are hiding all of their assets and keeping inadequate insurance limits. The bottom line is that the tort reform medical malpractice "crisis" has been a massive sham that has used falsehoods to influence the public.

Note: see also category Head & Brain Injuries. Brain injury is a major cause of death and disability of people under age 45 and a significant medical/legal...

Note: see mass transit category for many rail industry articles. This article discusses railroad worker long term diesel exhaust fume lung disorders, as well as medical studies...

Note: see also Automobile Accident category. A recall was recently done of the Evenflo Embrace infant car seat/carriers made before April 8, 2006. This involves over 450,000 bad infant car seats with faulty handles. If you or your family has experienced and injury as a result of this defective product in Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), or elsewhere we hope you will contact us to serve as your personal injury lawyer to obtain a recovery from the at fault manufacturer.

Diesel exhaust fumes health and safety issues have been pushed to the forefront of health news by passage of new U.S. governmental regulations pertaining to railroad locomotive engines and other...