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1 Jul 2022 Injured Iowa Woman First Amtrak Passenger to File Lawsuit Following Fatal Missouri Derailment National railroad disaster attorneys at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC today filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit on behalf of a passenger injured in Monday’s fatal, mass-casualty Amtrak train derailment in Mendon, Missouri. Read Story

1 Jul 2022 Amtrak and BNSF Railway Sue Dump Truck Owner After Fatal Missouri Train Crash Amtrak and BNSF Railway have filed a federal lawsuit claiming a Missouri company’s negligence led to a train crash and derailment Monday that killed four people, including the company’s dump truck driver. Read Story

28 Jun 2022 Railway Crossing at Center of Federal Investigation Into Deadly Amtrak Crash in Missouri A fourth person has died and more than 150 people were injured in rural Missouri after an Amtrak train crashed Monday into a dump truck, derailing the entire train, officials said. Read Story

27 Jun 2022 Railroad Catastrophe Lawyers From Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky on Today’s Fatal Amtrak Collision-derailment in Missouri Leading railroad catastrophe lawyers from Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC are raising wide ranging safety concerns and responding to media inquiries today following today’s fatal multi-car Amtrak Southwest Chief train collision-derailment at a crossing in Mendon, Missouri, about 100 miles ... Read Story

27 Jun 2022 Three Killed and Two Injured in California Amtrak Train Crash Three were killed and two were injured in Brentwood of Northern California on Sunday after an Amtrak train slammed into a car crossing train tracks. One of the injured was airlifted to nearby John Muir Health. The other was a ... Read Story

20 Jun 2022 Man Paralyzed in Swimming Pool Says Party Hosts Negligently Overserved Him Alcohol Before Accident PITTSBURGH – A man who suffered a severe spinal cord injury at a house party where alcohol was consumed argues that his paralysis was the result of the party hosts’ negligence in allowing him to be overserved with alcohol. Andrew ... Read Story

18 Jun 2022 One Dead, Five Injured After Philadelphia Building Catches Fire Then Collapses A Philadelphia firefighter has died, and at least 5 others were seriously injured after being buried alive in the collapsing building’s rubble. Reports indicate that authorities from at least nine agencies responded to a building fire in Philadelphia’s Fairhill neighborhood ... Read Story

14 Jun 2022 Philadelphia Army Veteran and Weapons Specialist Latest to Sue Gun Maker Sig Sauer Over Its Allegedly Defectively Dangerous P320 Pistol George Abrahams was wounded by the holstered gun without his hand ever touching it. Read Story

31 May 2022 Lawsuit Filed Against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Following Murder of Nursing Assistant Anrae James by Heavily Armed Off-Duty Co-Worker Attorneys at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky today sued Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University Hospital alleging systemic security failures resulted in last October’s execution-style murder of Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Anrae T. James, who was killed by a heavily armed, off-duty ... Read Story

27 May 2022 At Least 4 Dead, 2 Injured in Pottstown, Pennsylvania Home Explosion Four people are dead and at least 2 others are injured after a home exploded in Pottstown, Pennsylvania on Thursday evening around 8 p.m. Authorities are in the process of determining what caused the explosion that leveled one residence and ... Read Story