{"id":3507,"date":"2014-05-05T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:52:57","slug":"u-s-court-appeals-affirms-causation-argument-sufficient-facts-support-theory-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-affirms-causation-argument-sufficient-facts-support-theory-causation\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Causation Argument Where There Was Sufficient Facts to Support the Theory of Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Brian Crompton worked as a railroad employee for <a href=\"http:\/\/bnsf.com\/\">BNSF Railway<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>On April 24, 2011, Crompton worked on a locomotive that was to travel from Paducah, Ky., to downstate <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofcentralia.org\/\">Centralia, Ill.<\/a><span>\u00a0 <\/span>Crompton was severely injured during the trip from Paducah when he was knocked off the train by a door that flew open when he was throwing a switch.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Crompton brought a lawsuit against BNSF under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefela.com\/LocomotiveInspectionAct.asp\">Locomotion Inspection Act <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Employers_Liability_Act\">Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA)<\/a> claiming that BNSF chose not to keep the locomotive and its parts in good working order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">BNSF moved for summary judgment on both counts of the complaint, which was denied by the U.S. District Court judge who found that Crompton had presented sufficient evidence to suggest that the door latch on the front cab door was defective and thus the case could go to the jury for its determination of the facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After the jury trial, BNSF was found negligent, and Crompton was found to be contributory negligent.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The jury found that 70% of the fault for Crompton\u2019s injury could be assigned to BNSF and 30% to Crompton.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Because the Locomotive Inspection Act is a strict liability statute, BNSF was required to pay the entire amount of Crompton\u2019s damages, which totaled $1.6 million.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>BNSF appealed to the U.S Court of Appeals in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-affirms-causation-argument-sufficient-facts-support-theory-causation\/#more-3507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Crompton worked as a railroad employee for BNSF Railway.\u00a0 On April 24, 2011, Crompton worked on a locomotive that was to travel from Paducah, Ky., to downstate Centralia, Ill.\u00a0 Crompton was severely injured during the trip from Paducah when he was knocked off the train by a door that flew open when he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,72,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-law","category-train-accidents","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Causation Argument Where There Was Sufficient Facts to Support the Theory of Causation &#8212; 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