An Oklahoma jury found that a railroad holds the bulk of the responsibility for a 2013 vehicle-train collision that killed a truck driver. “The Knight family is very thankful for the service of the jury and the judge,” said Grant ...

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A Greene County jury has awarded more than $5 million to a 44-year-old former railroad worker injured in a 2015 fall at a Springfield rail yard. The 10 jurors deemed that defendant BNSF Railway Co. was 80 percent at fault ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Sept. 4 upheld a jury award of $3.8 million to a couple in Holt County whose farm was ravaged by floodwater after a railroad embankment collapsed. Thomas and Dana Tubbs had sued ...

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