BNSF Railway Joins Legal Fight Against Unions Over Vaccine Mandate November 10, 2021 By Josh Funk Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to...
BNSF Railway Sued for Sexual Harassment at Nebraska Railyard September 27, 2021 A federal lawsuit alleges women working at a Nebraska railyard were subjected to sexual harassment and managers failed to do...
Fire Damage to BNSF Nebraska Terminal Estimated at $3M April 14, 2021 A fire over the weekend at a BNSF Railway terminal in western Nebraska is estimated to have caused $3 million...
Derailed Train in Oklahoma Spills Toxic Chemical, Spurs Evacuations June 15, 2020 Dozens of residents of a small Oklahoma city were temporarily evacuated early on June 13 after a train derailed and...
BNSF Ordered to Pay $1M More in Montana Wrongful Termination Lawsuit May 1, 2019 A federal judge has ordered BNSF Railway to pay an additional $1 million after reaffirming a $2.1 million jury award...
BNSF Acknowledges Iowa Derailment Was Flood Related August 13, 2018 By Nelson Lampe BNSF Railway has acknowledged that flooding played a role in a derailment that loosed thousands of gallons of oil into...
Damage Cap Upheld in Fatal 2015 North Dakota School/Bus Train Crash March 21, 2018 The North Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a $500,000 cap on damages in a 2015 fatal school bus-train crash near...
Supreme Court Weighs Limiting Where Corporations Can Be Sued April 26, 2017 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to clamp down on where corporations can be sued, a potential setback...
Survivor of Deadly Texas Train Wreck Sues BNSF Railway November 28, 2016 The lone survivor of a head-on crash between two freight trains in the Texas Panhandle has filed a lawsuit seeking...
Judge in Washington Finds Railway Could Be Liable if Spills Proven October 28, 2016 By Phuong Le A federal judge in Seattle has found that BNSF Railway could be held liable in a lawsuit claiming that coal...