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Experience and Success
Why is The Matthews Law Firm so successful in FELA cases?
- The Matthews Law Firm and its predecessor law firms has been fighting for the rights of rail workers and their families for more than 80 years. Unlike some law firms, The Matthews Law Firm has extensive FELA experience and has obtained substantial results fighting for the rights of rail workers. Having handled many FELA claims and cases over the years, The Matthews Law Firm is an experienced trial law firm possessing specialized skills in handling FELA cases.
- Doug Matthews and The Matthews Law Firm have obtained many substantial settlements and verdicts for injured railroad workers, and you will be well-represented when you hire them to handle your FELA case. The Matthews Law Firm has frequently demonstrated its FELA experience by achieving many top FELA settlements and verdicts while maintaining professional integrity and an outstanding professional reputation. Although many lawyers claim to have experience in FELA and railroad cases by misleading advertisements, you should be careful that you find a lawyer that has been successful in handling and trying these unique cases.
- The Matthews Law Firm understands the laws and rules governing railroad accidents including the FELA, the locomotive Inspection Act (formerly the Boiler Inspection Act), the Safety Appliance Act, the Railway Labor Act, FRA Rules, the Railroad Retirement Board, the "hog law", the various railroad operating rules and other rules and statutes that are unique to railroading. The FELA is quite different, for example, from laws covering automobile accidents and worker's compensation.
- The Matthews Law Firm understands railroading and its unique equipment, work practices and language. The Matthews Law Firm, for example, knows the difference between a "hoghead" and a "car knocker". When cases involve a superintendent's investigation, a Public Law Board, RUIB sickness benefits, a worn sill step, a defective pin lifter, a broken knuckle, excessive slack action, a defective flopover switch or one or more of the many other uncommon equipment, work practices or terms of railroading, The Matthews Law Firm has encountered them before and can quickly get to the heart of a case to determine liability against the carrier. Inexperienced lawyers will often have difficulty in even understanding what happened in a particular railroad accident.
- The Matthews Law Firm conducts an early investigation of railroad accidents in order to prove the railroad's negligence, to prove that you were not negligent, to prove that your negligence was very small -- or that a safety appliance defect or a locomotive engine defect caused the accident.
- After an early investigation, The Matthews Law Firm files FELA lawsuits as soon as possible and then seeks an early jury trial setting.
- The Matthews Law Firm obtains top settlements and verdicts in FELA cases because of its early investigations, its early lawsuit filings and its obtaining of early jury trial settings. Additionally, its thorough and competent preparation of each FELA case provides great leverage in settlement negotiations with the rail carriers. Although most FELA cases settle and don't have to be tried, these important actions also greatly improve the chances for a successful jury verdict if your FELA case has to be tried.
- The Matthews Law is always accessible to FELA clients. Moreover, The Matthews Law Firm attempts to promptly answer your questions and to keep you informed about the progress and status of your case.
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