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Q: I work on a railroad and was hurt, how can I recover for my injuries?

A: Railroads are extremely dangerous places to work. Often times the railroad does not do enough to ensure the safety of its workers. Railroads don't always provide safe equipment or work enviroments. When this happens it can lead to serious injures to railroad workers. Unfortunately, railroad workers are not entitled to worker's compensation to pay for their injuries; instead, they must file a lawsuit against their employer under a federal law known as the Federal Employer Liability Act, known as FELA. In order to recover your damages, a jury must find that the railroad failed to provide a "reasonably safe place to work" and that this failure contributed, in whole or in part, to your injuries. Railroads spend millions of dollars every year in Kentucky defending claims made by injured railroad workers. We are proud to say our firm is at the forefront of representing injured railroad workers. In the last 9 years there have been 43 FELA cases tried to jury verdict. Only 14 times has the verdict been over $500,000. We are fortunate to count three of those verdicts as our own. We also have one of the only 6 FELA verdicts of a million dollars or more.