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IN RE: Amtrak Train Derailment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 12, 2015
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October 27, 2016
Amtrak Settles Philly Derailment Claims For $265M
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday approved a $265 million settlement for all pending claims over the 2015 derailment of Amtrak train number 188 in Philadelphia, which caused eight deaths and more than 200 injuries.
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February 01, 2016
Amtrak Document Release Puts Focus On Engineer
The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday released more than 2,000 pages of documents from its ongoing investigation into the May 2015 crash of Amtrak train number 188 in Philadelphia, including interviews with the train's engineer that reveal he was intentionally accelerating prior to the derailment.
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October 13, 2015
Amtrak Derailment Suits Centralized In Philadelphia
The suits pursuing liability from the May Amtrak crash in Philadelphia will proceed in the city of brotherly love, after the United States Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Tuesday ordered a federal court in Pennsylvania to handle the cases before trial.
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October 01, 2015
Amtrak, Plaintiffs Counsel Agree Crash Cases Belong In Philly
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.
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July 01, 2015
Amtrak Supports Bid To Consolidate Philly Derailment Suits
Amtrak on Tuesday consented to a request by plaintiffs pursuing claims stemming from May's deadly train derailment in Philadelphia to create a new federal multidistrict litigation program in the city to handle the 22 separate suits already filed, as well as future claims.