BOSTON — A personal injury law firm says it has been hired by several passengers who were on board the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train that caught fire on a bridge last week, and has taken the first step toward a possible lawsuit against the transit agency.
WBZ Radio reports the firm Morgan & Morgan said in a release that it is “investigating if there were certain safety measures that were not in place that could have helped prevent the injuries our clients sustained in the panic.”
In the July 21 incident in Somerville, Mass., an Orange Line train caught fire after a metal part made contact with the electrified third rail, leading some passengers to break out windows to escape and one woman to jump into the river [see “Loose metal part struck third rail …,” Trains News Wire, July 22, 2022]. Reports at the time said no one was injured.
WBZ reports the law firm did not say how many passengers have become clients. Lawyers said they have made presentment claims on behalf of the riders in accordance with the Massachusetts Tort Claim Act, and will file suit if the state doesn’t respond within six months.
Lawsuits like this cost everyone money,not just the defendant.The law firm will have their clients go for physical therapy for supposed strains and counseling for their trauma and mental anguish.”THE FIRST THING WE DO,IS KILL ALL THE LAWYERS”, SHAKESPEARE
Then who will you go to when you are harmed by others?
How exactly will MBTA — essentially bankrupt — pay these claims?
Call these lawyers ambulance chasers or vultures if you will … but in this incident they actually have a case.
Please explain why a ambulance chaser would need to be licensed in PA to file a suit in MA.
A local law firm is running ads pointing out that Morgan & Morgan is out of Florida and that Morgan himself is not licensed in PA.
So, who gets to an accident scene faster, first responders or tort lawyers?
Morgan & Morgan advertise like there’s no tomorrow on Boston’s ABC affiliate WCVB during the evening news. The law firm touts itself as “America’s Largest Injury Law Firm” with such come-ons as “The Fee Is Free, Only Pay If We Win.” and “$13+ Billion Recovered”
https://www.forthepeople.com/
So, an ambulance chaser that works with crooked doctors to make up non-existent injuries just to get money from a state government agency…perhaps state agencies should have exemption laws.