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Texas Supreme Court to Hear Case on Liability for Railroad Crossing Collision

The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving a collision of a train and a car at a railroad crossing that raises questions of federal preemption as well as sufficiency of evidence. Ladonna Sue Rigsby was killed …

CSX Settles Civil Suit in Train Death of Film Worker in Georgia

A railroad owner settled a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a film worker killed in 2014 when a train slammed into a crew shooting a movie about singer Gregg Allman, ending the company’s appeal of a $3.9 million …

CSX Ordered to Pay $3.9M in Georgia Train Death of Allman Film Crew Member

A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury’s decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the company said. The jury in Savannah …

Civil Trial to Decide CSX Role in Georgia Train Death of Allman Movie Crew Member

A movie director served jail time for trespassing onto a Georgia railroad bridge and putting his film crew in the path of a freight train that slammed into the group and killed a young camera assistant. Now the dead woman’s …

Louisiana Supreme Court Says Town, Railroad not Liable in Track Death

The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the Kenner and the Illinois Central Railroad Co. are not liable for a 2009 crash in which a train struck and killed a deaf woman trying to cross the tracks at an unguarded …