State Appellate Court Affirms $2.75M Jury Verdict in Negligence Suit Against Railroad Co.
“Overfield did not need to present evidence that either the vest or the working conditions of the locomotive were inherently unsafe, or that they each constituted an independent cause of his damage, in order to submit the verdict director in the disjunctive,” Missouri Appellate Judge Gary M. Gaertner said in Overfield v. BNSF Railway.