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About George Brugess
George T. Brugess is a partner at Cogan & Power, P.C. who has practiced railroad law for over 30 years, focusing primarily on Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) litigation and occupational illness claims on behalf of injured railroad workers. Before representing plaintiffs, he spent 15 years as a general attorney for CNW Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad, giving him direct experience with how railroads approach FELA cases from the defense side. His notable results include co-litigating a $24 million county FELA verdict and representing clients in the Fox River Grove school bus crash litigation. Brugess has served as an instructor for bar associations, speaks frequently to union groups on worker rights, and previously served as president of the Morton School District Board of Education.
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Michael Parsons, a Norfolk Southern conductor, had his left foot crushed between two railcars at the company's 51st/55th Street yard in Chicago after 2010 track work narrowed the clearance between two adjacent tracks to as little as 10 feet 6 inches. A Cook County jury found Parsons zero percent negligent and awarded $22,474,102 in November 2015. The trial court ordered a $1 million remittitur from the lost-earnings portion of the award, which Parsons accepted, reducing the judgment to $21,474,102. The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed that judgment in August 2017, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Norfolk Southern's petition for further review in October 2018.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.