According to the magazine "The Week" page 6, "Only in America, A federal jury has awarded $24.2 million to two men who were burned by a power cable while illegally climbing on top of an Amtrak train." ...."both 17 at the time of the 2002 accident, argued in their suit that Amtrak should have posted signs warning passengers that locomotives were powered by electricity and were not safe to climb." ...."the young men's lawyer, conceded that it would have been their fault if they had fallen off the train--but that Amtrak should be held responsible for the "unannounced, unwrapped, unmonitored" 12,500-volt power cable on top of the train." It seems to me that this lawsuit should have never been filed in the first place. I also believe these individuals should never have been granted such an exuberant amount of money for their own negligence. If you would have been a panelist on this jury, what would your verdict have been?
2006-11-08
12:28:14
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