Lawsuits Pile Up Into Amtrak Wreck
Three weeks after Amtrak’s Empire Builder derailed along a remote stretch of track on Montana’s Hi-Line, killing three and injuring scores more, a dozen lawsuits have been filed by passengers injured in the deadliest railroad accident in the United States since 2017.
But those lawsuits against Amtrak and BNSF Railway, which owns the track the train was derailed on, might run into trouble