The News-Tribune, Tacoma, WA 3/24/21
Court: Amtrak, not engineer, liable for deadly 2017 derailment near DuPont
A Pierce County Superior Court judge has ruled that Amtrak is strictly liable for the claim of its engineer who sued for his injuries after a deadly 2017 derailment near DuPont.
“The judge will instruct the jury that the court has already ruled that Amtrak is 100 percent at fault, what we call strict liability here,” Fred Bremseth, one of the engineer’s attorneys, told The News Tribune earlier this month.
The ruling means the trial scheduled later this year will be to determine damages, Bremseth said, without “the back and forth of the blame game.”