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so
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in my career i’ve been fortunate enough
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to represent a lot of people who’ve been
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injured in either
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train bus plane accidents one particular
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case that stands out
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is a case where i represented a 28 year
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old woman who arrived at a metrolink
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station while the train
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was stopped at the station train was
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about to leave she ran from the parking
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lot to the platform as she got to the
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platform
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the conductor hung out of the side of
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the train and waved to her and yelled
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come on you can still make it
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so she ran towards him he grabbed
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her hand and the train started to move
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and as it moved she fell from the train
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onto the platform and rolled onto the
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tracks
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now by the grace of god this train went
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over her and didn’t kill her
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but it significantly tore up her legs
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it resulted in a very significant knee
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injury
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and what was particularly satisfying
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about that case
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was that when she came to us and we
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ended up filing suit against metrolink
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surprisingly they had lost the video
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from the trains
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and the conductor’s story was that she
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ran towards the train and he kept
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telling her to stop stop stop wait for
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the next train
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so essentially became a he said she said
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so
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we were able to track down several
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eyewitnesses who were able to confirm
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our client’s version of the events so we
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filed the litigation against metrolink
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we then did investigation and a year
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later
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we were finally able to get internal
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documents that showed
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that the conductor had actually
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confessed to his supervisor
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three days later that he tried to pull
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our client onto a moving train
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direct violation of their policies and
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procedures so as a result of our efforts
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we were able to get a significant
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settlement on the evil trial for
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metrolink so that was a very satisfying
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case