$550,000 VERDICT- FEDERAL EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT- RAILROAD WORKER INJURED IN HOTEL BETWEEN FREIGHT RUNS- FAILURE TO MAINTAIN HOTEL CHAIR-FALL FROM CHAIR-SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT WITH SURGERY. KARETAS vs. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY and MACINTOSH INN

This action was brought against the defendant, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, and against the defendant, MacIntosh Inn of Allentown under common law negligence theory. The plaintiff was a railroad employee who was staying in the defendant’s hotel between freight runs. He claimed he was injured when the back of a chair in his hotel room broke and he fell to the floor. The defendants denied notice of a problem with the chair and disputed the plaintiff’s claimed injuries. Prior to trial, defendants offered $50,000.00.

Mitchell A. Kaye, Esquire of Coffey Kaye Myers & Olley represented Plaintiff;
Elizabeth Horneff, Esquire represented the Defendants.

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