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PAULSBORO DERAILMENT CASES

  1. April 15, 2016

    Railroads Want Quick Win On NJ Couple's Derailment Claims

    Three railroad companies asked a New Jersey federal judge Friday to dismiss the claims of a man who alleges he was sickened as a result of exposure to a chemical spilled during a 2012 derailment, telling the judge the man's allegations are insufficient without expert testimony asserting his symptoms were caused by the spill.

  2. March 28, 2016

    Conrail Says Derailment Injury Claim Lacks Evidence

    Consolidated Rail Corp. on Monday hit back at a New Jersey man's bid to affirm a jury award over injuries he had allegedly suffered from vinyl chloride exposure resulting from a freight train derailment, saying he had failed to tie his claimed health problems to the chemical.

  3. March 21, 2016

    NJ Man Says He Proved Injuries In Conrail Derailment Suit

    The New Jersey man who sued Consolidated Rail Corp. over a freight train derailment shot back at the railroad's attempts to invalidate his jury award for lack of expert witnesses, telling a federal judge Monday that his own testimony and other evidence had been sufficient for the jury to make its determination after trial.

  4. March 02, 2016

    Conrail Says NJ Man's Derailment Award Is Invalid

    Consolidated Rail Corp. sought Monday to overturn a New Jersey man's $500 negligence award for illnesses he suffered from being exposed to chemicals after a derailment, contending the verdict was invalid because there was no expert testimony to support his injury claims.

  5. February 16, 2016

    Conrail Seeks Stay Of Verdict In NJ Train Derailment Case

    Consolidated Rail Corp. urged a federal judge to table the $500 judgment a jury awarded to a New Jersey man who claimed he was harmed by chemical exposure following a 2012 derailment, telling the court Tuesday it intends to challenge the verdict.

  6. February 02, 2016

    NJ Jury Finds Conrail Liable In Suit Over Spill Injuries

    A federal jury on Tuesday awarded a $500 judgment to a New Jersey man who sued Consolidated Rail Corp. and its parent companies over a freight train derailment that sent 20,000 gallons of vinyl chloride into a creek and, he claimed, exposed him to the toxic substance.

  7. February 01, 2016

    NJ Man Stressed Before Conrail Derailment, Doc Testifies

    A psychiatrist enlisted by Consolidated Rail Corp. to help defend a negligence lawsuit stemming from a train derailment and ensuing chemical spill testified Monday that the New Jersey man claiming the incident caused his chronic anxiety had stressors in his life beforehand and afterwards.

  8. January 26, 2016

    Conrail Neglected Bridge Prior To Chemical Spill, Jury Told

    Consolidated Rail Corp. should have resolved problems plaguing a Paulsboro, New Jersey, bridge before the structure collapsed and sent seven tankers carrying hazardous substances into a creek, an attorney representing a man allegedly sickened by the chemical exposure told a jury Tuesday.

  9. January 21, 2016

    Conrail Says Derailment Suit Needs Expert To Survive

    Consolidated Rail Corp. told a federal judge that a New Jersey man claiming he suffered physical ailments following a 2012 train derailment and ensuing chemical spill can't prove that the railroad was negligent without expert testimony, and the court has excluded the plaintiff's medical causation expert.

  10. December 22, 2015

    Conrail Derailment Plaintiffs Take Losses To 3rd Circ.

    Several plaintiffs suing Consolidated Rail Corp., Norfolk Southern Railway Co. and CSX Transportation Inc. over a 2012 train derailment and chemical spill in Paulsboro, New Jersey, will ask the Third Circuit to revive their negligence claims related to the railroads' training and disciplinary policies, court records show.

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