From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Jerry Schlichter thinks St. Louis can be comeback city of the country," by Martin Van Der Werf.
Has some of your work made the railroad industry safer?
I believe so. ... The railroad industry didn't sound-proof their locomotives, didn't provide hearing protection until there were injury claims. I handled a significant number of those claims in the very late'80s. Only then did they provide 29-cent earplugs to their employees.
Is tort reform going to make it harder to win these sorts of cases?
There will be a lot of innocent victims who will not get compensation as a result. We now have in Missouri restrictions on damages for what's called non-economic loss. Losing a child is a severe loss, (but) there are cases that won't be brought for children's deaths because they don't have an economic loss. And I think that is sad.
--Posted by T. Evan Schaeffer of the Missouri Vioxx law firm of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C.
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