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Recent News About Norfolk Southern Corporation
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Lawsuit filed over Norfolk Southern employee's fall down bank
PITTSBURGH – A Norfolk Southern Railway employee says the company failed to give her a safe place to work, leading to a 2017 injury. -
Train repairman who alleged Conrail and Norfolk Southern Railway Company's conduct led to his injuries discontinues case
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation filed by a train repairman who alleged both Conrail and Norfolk Southern Railway disregarded the Federal Employers Liability Act by exposing him to repetitive occupational trauma and leaving him with permanent shoulder and knee injuries, has discontinued his case without prejudice. -
Litigation from estate of ex-employee against Norfolk Southern Railway company likely to be refiled in Georgia court
PHILADELPHIA – A Federal Employers Liability Act-based lawsuit brought against Norfolk Southern Railway Company for alleged workplace negligence leading one of its former employees to contract lung cancer, is likely to be refiled in a Georgia court, per a recent voluntary dismissal. -
Former conductor and brakeman of 36 years settles toxic exposure suit with three companies
PHILADELPHIA – A former train conductor and brakeman of 36 years has settled with three rail and insurance companies which he claimed had violated the Federal Employers Liability Act, by neglecting to provide him a safe workplace and caused him to contract kidney cancer through exposure to toxic substances. -
Ga. man's FELA action versus Norfolk Southern dismissed from Philly court so it can be filed in more appropriate forum
PHILADELPHIA – A Georgia man and Norfolk Southern Railway Company have mutually elected to discontinue litigation that alleges his contraction of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma was a proximate result of his work environment without prejudice. -
Norfolk Southern Railway claims Georgia man's lawsuit has no place in Philly court
PHILADELPHIA – Norfolk Southern Railway Company says a lawsuit filed against it by a former flagman, conductor and engineer, one which accuses it of negligence under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) in providing an unsafe work environment and causing the plaintiff to contract colon, prostate and throat cancer, lacks appropriate jurisdiction. -
Lawsuit: Trackman and machine operator's bladder cancer the result of rail companies' negligence under FELA
PHILADELPHIA – A man who worked for two major rail transport companies claims they violated the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) by placing him in a work environment which exposed him to carcinogens and later led him to contract bladder cancer, claims the companies categorically deny. -
Norfolk Southern Railway opposes choice of Philly court for suit filed by Ga. man with Hodgkin's Lymphoma
PHILADELPHIA – A Georgia man and former employee of Norfolk Southern Railway Co. has chosen Philadelphia as a setting in which to argue that his contraction of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma was a proximate result of his work environment, a move opposed by the rail company. -
Norfolk Southern: Why is N.C. man suing us in Philadelphia?
PHILADELPHIA – A North Carolina man and ex-employee for Norfolk Southern Railway Co. says the development of his colon cancer is directly tied to his work duties as a brakeman, conductor and engineer, while the rail company claims the case has no connection to Pennsylvania. -
Man claims Norfolk Southern responsible for injury caused by falling hatch
PITTSBURGH — An employee is suing Norfolk Southern Corporation, an railway company, alleging liability and negligence for a workplace injury he suffered three years ago.