A Jackson County, Missouri jury awarded $30 million to DBJ-client Virgil McCormack, a carpenter, who received a 277-volt electric shock at a construction site when sub-contractor negligence led to the shock.
An Arkansas jury awarded DBJ and its client a $20 million judgment to the family of a 15-year-old boy whose doctor operated on the wrong side of his brain.
Davis, Bethune & Jones Secures $20 Million Verdict for Surgery Error Read More »
PAWNEE — A jury in a civil suit filed against BNSF Railway after a 2013 fatality accident in Lela, about
Jury awards millions to victim of accident Read More »
A Missouri appeals count has affirmed a $3.5 million verdict for a railroad conductor who was injured in a 2013
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Stetson University College of Law awarded its prestigious Cornerstone Award to DBJ partner Scott Bethune during its regional Educating Advocates Teaching Advocacy Skills conference on Dec. 7 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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In a press release issued on February 27, 2019, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that the probable cause of a fatal 2017 explosion in Millersville, Pennsylvania, was a faulty gas connection that allowed natural gas to leak into a single-family residence.
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Although the NTSB is fulfilling part of its duties by investigating these railroad accidents and issuing safety recommendations, it is long past time to require more proactive measures from the railroads themselves. The railroad industry’s focus on maximizing its own profits should not stop the NTSB from requiring them to install Positive Train Control on all of its trains.
NTSB Announces Cause of Fatal Amtrak Crash Read More »
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently updated the list of safety recommendations from its 2019-2020 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements.
NTSB Updates Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements Read More »
