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Litigation

May 24, 2005

Late Report

SANTA ANA - A jury on Friday awarded $2.78 million in compensatory damages in the first wrongful death case stemming from a train crash that killed three people and injured 161 others.

        SANTA ANA - A jury on Friday awarded $2.78 million in compensatory damages in the first wrongful death case stemming from a train crash that killed three people and injured 161 others.
        Lawrence Sorenson was a passenger on a Metrolink commuter train in Placentia on April 23, 2002, when a Burlington Northern freight train careened into the commuter. Sorenson was crushed by the forc...

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