Do You Believe You Have a FELA Claim?
If you are involved in a FELA claim, contact the experienced railroad injury attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins. Our Illinois railroad injury attorneys understand your rights. The Federal Employers' Liability Act demands railroads provide you with a reasonable, safe place to work. If you feel you have a FELA claim, we’re here to help.
The Federal Employers' Liability Act was intended to provide injured workers and their families with fair and livable compensation for injuries. It also lets you take your FELA claim to the state and federal court system. After conferring with your railroad injury attorneys, you can decide to accept a railroad settlement offer, make a different proposal, or go to trial.
To press a FELA claim, your railroad injury attorneys must first establish negligence on the part of the railroad. Fortunately, the amount of negligence that must be demonstrated is minimal. You railroad injury attorneys must simply show that the employer failed to provide a reasonably safe place to work.
When negligence is proven, you will receive much more compensation through a FELA claim than what you can obtain through state workers compensation systems.
Contact Illinois railroad injury attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins
The attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins are experienced with obtaining results with FELA claims. Here is just one example:
A thirty-eight year-old worker injured a disk in his back when he slipped on a plastic bag and fell down a staircase on a train at work. The injury eventually required surgery. The injury prevented the worker from ever returning to work. Our lawyers at Lipkin & Higgins represented the worker in his FELA claimand a Cook County jury awarded our client $2.4 million, and then reduced the award by 50% for his own contributory negligence.
Case results from the personal injury lawyers at Lipkin & Higgins
- $700,000 for a 28-year-old construction worker who suffered a broken leg on the job
- $425,000 for a 78-year-old woman who fell and broke her hip at a nursing home
- $280,000 for a worker who suffered head injuries while working on a train
- $250,000 for an 82-year-old woman who was injured as a result of a slip and fall at a Chicago restaurant
Mr. Higgins is an accomplished trial lawyer who has negotiated large settlements and tried multiple complex cases. After starting his own practice in 1995, he has concentrated on representing railway and construction workers, people who have been seriously injured in automobile accidents and slip and fall accidents, as well as victims of medical malpractice and nursing home abuse and neglect.
