The Lyon Firm is filing railroad diesel exhaust cancer lawsuits on behalf of former workers at America’s rail yards. Many have been exposed to a variety of hazardous materials like creosote, silica, benzene, diesel, and asbestos and may have a viable personal injury claim. Victims can be entitled to compensation for losses and damages, including many costs that may not be covered by Workers Comp and health insurance. Damages in these cases may be extensive and can cover the following:
- Hospital bills
- Various medical costs
- Costs of medication, surgery, and cancer treatment
- Costs that will not be covered by insurance
- Medical expenses related to long-term therapy and rehab
- Lost wages if you had to stop working due to an illness or injury
- Loss of future earnings if you cannot work due to a medical condition
- Pain and suffering and emotional distress
- A reduced quality of life
- Wrongful death
The size of your compensation package or settlement will depend on many factors, including the severity of your illness, whether you are able to work into the future, the costs you have already incurred and the ability of your lawyer to negotiate the best terms possible. It is critical to file early and to hire an attorney with experience, proven success, and with regional jurisdiction, to take your diesel exposure case.
The Lyon Firm focuses on single-event personal injury cases and class actions involving corporate negligence, occupational toxic exposure, and work injury claims. We assume all the financial risk with no cost unless we win. We work strictly on contingency fees, advancing all costs of the litigation, and allow our clients to spend their time focusing on their personal health and family as the case moves forward.
About Taylor Yard
Long defunct now, Taylor Yard, in Los Angeles, California, was a railway station and classification yard operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The rail company eventually sold off to Union Pacific after some financial difficulties, and closed many former rail yards in California and throughout the west. While Taylor Yard was operational, Southern Pacific used the yard for regular inspection, repair, and storage of freight cars on the Southern Pacific Fruit Express line.
By the 1950s, Taylor Yard was right at the center of the freight network in southern California, and the yard grew with the state’s population and economic prosperity. In 1983, an average of 25,000 railroad cars moved through Taylor Yard, and 1,200 workers were employed on site. Southern Pacific closed the terminal in 1985, but only after decades of operation that employed tens of thousands of railroad workers.
