October 01, 2015
With half of the suits targeting Amtrak over May's deadly train wreck pending in Pennsylvania's Eastern District, and with the potentially thorny issue of a $200 million damages cap looming, counsel on both sides told the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Thursday that the cases ought to be centralized in Philadelphia.
May 18, 2015
Four passengers injured in last week's Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia sued the company and engineer Brian Bostian in Pennsylvania federal court on Monday, claiming they sustained serious injuries when the train accelerated to an "outrageously fast" speed before crashing and killing eight passengers.