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Old Jul 26, 2011 | 7:25 pm
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Originally Posted by azepine00
As a reference Metrolink crash near LA with 25 dead and 135 injured maxed out liability at $200M and a small army of lawyers demand raising the cap to 400-600M. If we have to worry about rail service being driven out of business due to an accident it's here...
The total paid out by Chinese government for this incident, including death benefits, long term medical care and compensation for the injured, property
loss, emergency services... ~ 3 M USD.

For the 08 Chatsworth Metrolink collision the legal fees alone, both sides,
~ 200 M USD.
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