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Understand the Cause of Your Railroad Accident with the Help of a New York FELA Lawyer

For the past century, the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) has tried to protect railroad workers who were hurt on-the-job. The law allows a worker to collect significant damages including compensation for lost wages, future impairment of earning capacity, past and future medical bills, pain and suffering and other expenses related to the injury.

Proving Causation in a FELA Case

Part of the protection that FELA provides to railroad workers is the relatively lenient standard of causation it requires workers to prove in order to collect damages. In many types of personal injury cases, the injured plaintiff must prove that the defendant's actions were the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury. The legal definition of proximate cause is complex but generally requires the plaintiff to prove that the injury was foreseeable and would not have happened but for the actions of the defendant.

As a New York FELA attorney, the law does not currently require me to prove that a railroad's negligence was the proximate cause of my client's injury, in order for my client to recover damages. Instead, FELA requires an injured railroad worker to prove that the railroad was negligent. In fact, the injured worker may have been the proximate cause of his own injury and still recover damages if the railroad was at all negligent.

Why Railroads Fight FELA and Why You Need a New York FELA Lawyer to Fight for You

Railroads know how great the damages can be in a FELA case. They will fight hard to keep you from recovering the damages that you deserve.

You need someone to fight hard on your behalf. You need a New York FELA lawyer to help you get the damages that you deserve.

Call the experienced lawyers of Hofmann & Schweitzer today at 1-800-362-9329 to learn more about your rights and potential recovery.

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