Amtrak Train Crash: A Year Later, Victims Uncompensated and Questions Unanswered
On May 12, 2015, Amtrak Train 188, bound for New York from Washington, D.C., derailed and left eight people dead and more than 200 injured. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Administration have ruled out mechanical, signal, and track errors and are focusing on human error. The human operating the train, Engineer Brandon Bostian has, […]
Locks Law Firm to Appear As Amicus Curaie in Arbitration Dispute Before The New Jersey Supreme Court
The Locks Law Firm, on behalf of the Consumers League of New Jersey, was granted leave to appear as amicus curiae before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Friday April 29, 2016 in the case Roach v. BM Motoring, LLC. The complaint in Roach alleges a used car dealer committed fraud by misrepresenting the condition […]
Product Liability Law in Pennsylvania – Some Questions Answered, New Questions Posed
The long awaited decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Tincher v. OmegaFlex, Inc., 104 A.3d 328 (Pa. 2014) finally clarified the law of Pennsylvania with respect to product liability. Pennsylvania had previously been a jurisdiction which adhered to the Restatement of Torts Second but in the interim, the American Law Institute had come forward […]