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... foreseeability of harm is an essential ingredient of [FELA] negligence."). This is a fact issue, and, "[a]s with all factual issues under the FELA, the right of the jury to pass on this issue must be ...
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... physical peril against which FELA protects. Given FELA's central focus on physical dangers, we hold that Mr. Smith's rotating shift schedule is not actionable under FELA because the shift schedule did ...
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... remedies for injured railway employees is the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (the “FELA”). The FELA, in 45 U.S.C. § 51, provides that: Every common carrier by railroad . . . shall be liable ...
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... with FELA's central focus on physical perils"); id., at 556 (quoting Lancaster v. Norfolk & Western R. Co., 773 F. 2d 807, 813 (CA7 1985), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 945 (1987)) (FELA seeks to protect ...
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... In FELA cases plaintiff must prove pre-injury and post-injury earning potential. Quinones-Pacheco v. American Airlines, 979 F.2d 1, 6-7 (1st Cir. 1992). As the Sixth Circuit held in a FELA case ...
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... Liability Act ("FELA"), 45 U.S.C. _ 51 et seq. We hold that the plaintiff's case should have been allowed to go to the jury given the relaxed standard of negligence applicable in FELA cases and the ...
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... that FELA is governed "by the common law principles as established and applied in the federal courts." Urie v. Thompson, 337 U.S. 163, 174 (1949) (citation omitted). Thus, a FELA claim is governed in ...
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... created an unsafe workplace under the FELA. See Beissel, 801 F.2d at 145 ("In short, the Safety Appliance Acts provide the basis for the claim, and the FELA provides the remedy."). Gadsden's ...
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