A group of former employees at railroad company CSX have filed a lawsuit claiming they have lung cancer due to long time exposure to asbestos. The former employees who worked at CSX locations throughout Hillsborough County claim the company never warned them about the danger of their exposure to asbestos.
According to TampaBay.com all four employees worked in areas that heavily exposed them to asbestos. The former workers were stationed around railroad cars, locomotives, repair shops and boilers. The lawsuit alleges that CSX knew there was a danger to its employees but did not do anything to prevent the problem.

While the investigation into the death of 21-year-old monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg continues, a third employee at Walt Disney World in Orlando has died due to an injury suffered while on the job. Anislav Varbanov was pronounced dead Monday following an accident rehearsing for a stunt for the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular”. (read more)
This is the second show performer to die at the Magic Kingdom this month. Mark Priest, a 47-year-old performer at the Orlando theme park was seriously hurt during a “pirate tutorial” performance at the Magic Kingdom. Priest was sword-fighting in the show inspired by Captain Jack Sparrow and the popular Pirates of the Caribbean movies when he slipped and hit his head on a wall. Priest’s condition did not seem serious as he was improving in the hospital following the fall. His condition eventually worsened and rapidly deteriorated until he passed away.
If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, please contact Personal Injury Attorney Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

While the investigation into the death of 21-year-old monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg continues, another employee at Walt Disney World in Orlando has died due to an injury suffered while on the job. Mark Priest, a 47-year-old performer at the Orlando theme park was seriously hurt during a “pirate tutorial” performance at the Magic Kingdom. (read more)
Priest was sword-fighting in the show inspired by Captain Jack Sparrow and the popular Pirates of the Caribbean movies when he slipped and hit his head on a wall. Priest’s condition did not seem serious as he was improving in the hospital following the fall. On Monday his condition worsened and rapidly deteriorated. He passed away Tuesday.
If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, please contact Personal Injury Attorney Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still working its way through documents in Lake Buena Vista, FL trying to determine what caused the monorail accident at Walt Disney World that took the life of 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg. While that investigation is ongoing, officials did release the autopsy report on the monorail pilot late last week. (read more)
Wuennenberg died of blunt force trauma to the head and chest. Injuries to his spleen also played a role in his untimely passing. Orange County Sheriff’s investigators have gone on the record saying that the driver of the monorail that crashed with Wuennenberg’s was not at fault. They said that the error could have been caused by a computer or an operator who flipped a switch to put both trains on the same track. The NTSB has said that Disney has cooperated with all their requests for documents. Wuennenberg’s family filed paperwork in Orange County Courts last month looking to block Disney World from getting rid of any of the evidence in the case as there may be a potential personal injury lawsuit in the future.
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The starting placekicker for the University of South Florida Bulls was injured Saturday when he fell 35-feet from Busch Garden’s Skyride. The 20-year old football player was working at the Tampa amusement park according to team officials. Maikon Bonani is from Lake Wales was listed in fair condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital. (read more)
The Polk County resident is originally from Brazil and was expected to be the starting kicker for the Bulls as a sophomore this fall. Busch Garden’s confirmed an employee was injured at the park but did not release a name. The accident, which occurred around 3:00 p.m. happened after Bonani was worried about the security of a gondola door that just left the station. He held on to the door to check it and was holding on for about 50 feet as the gondola left the station before falling.
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New York has been on the forefront of awarding undocumented workers personal injury awards for accidents that take place at work. One case has now intertwined a personal injury lawsuit and immigration proceedings as an immigrant from Kosovo is claiming political asylum. (READ MORE)
The State Supreme Court settled the debate over whether undocumented workers could sue for future lost wages in 2006 but this case is the first where political asylum was brought into the equation. The defense is arguing in this particular case that the worker cannot sue for future wages if his political asylum is denied and he is sent back to Kosovo. The judge eventually instructed the jury that future earnings could be applied and that the defense was to make no mention of the plaintiff working in this country illegally.
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Scott Skirpan, a former Marine, settled his personal injury lawsuit midtrial as he reached a settlement for $16.5 million. The award was one of the largest in Pennsylvania history for a single plaintiff in a personal injury case. Skirpan lost both his legs when they were crushed by a bulldozer at a landfill. (READ MORE)
In May of 2006 the cement finisher was just five days into his job as a truck spotter when a massive track loader backed around a pile of garbage and ran him over. Witness say Skirpan is just lucky to be alive. He was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at the hospital and doctors told his wife he probably would not survive.
If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

Experienced Lawyer Darren Finebloom discusses how Finebloom & Hanel can help you if you are involved in an accident that was not your fault.