Amtrak - Lawsuit Victim
Brian Hopkins, aged 25years, and his family have filed a lawsuit against Amtrak because he got severely burnt when he touched some 27,500 volts of high tension cables, when he climbed up to the roof of an empty train at 2am in the morning at Boston’s South Station in 2006. His argument was that although he was trespassing at the station, Amtrak should have known that people trespass and climb on top of trains, and therefore the company should have parked its trains somewhere else or warned people that playing around with 27,500volt cables could result in death.
Is it only in America that you can find such lawsuits?
