Legal Opinion
Trimble v. BNSF Railway Co.
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided July 1, 2009No. 4:08CV3116PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
RICHARD G. KOPF, District Judge.
Before suffering an on-the-job back injury in June 1991, the plaintiff, Kenneth Trimble, was employed by Burlington Northern Railroad Company (“BN”), the predecessor of the defendant, BNSF Railway Company. The personal injury claim was settled in October 1992, with Trimble acknowledging that he was permanently disabled from returning to work for BN and releasing all claims arising from or in any way related to his employment with BN. In August 2007, Trimble was hired by a BNSF contractor, Alstom Transportation, Inc., to be a production…
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