Published Railroad Crossing Accident Decisions

Under the guidance of lead attorney Robert Pottroff, the law firm of Pottroff Law Office, P.A. has litigated and won numerous railroad crossing accident cases with jury verdicts awarding as much as $30 million to seriously injured clients.  Like any law firm, the vast majority of our cases settle before ever reaching a jury trial, but when we do go to court, we are successful.  

Due to the private nature of many of our cases, we have opted not to publish all of them here.  Posted below are merely a few of our most prominent verdicts. 

In Barber v. Union Pacific Railroad , Mr. Pottroff, along with attorney Steve Boyda, obtained a jury verdict in excess of $30,000,000.00 for a passenger severely injured in a railroad crossing accident. The verdict included $5.1 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.  This was by far the largest punitive damages award ever given in a railroad crossing accident case.

In Morris v. Union Pacific Railroad, Pottroff Law Office, P.A. represented a tow truck driver who was injured by a moving train while towing another vehicle off the railroad tracks. The jury awarded a verdict of $8 million in compensatory damages.

In Stevenson v. Union Pacific Railroad , the law firm of Pottroff Law Office, P.A. obtained a jury verdict of $2 million for a client who suffered brain damage in a railroad crossing accident in November 2001. The jury found that the railroad company had allowed the vegetation around the track to become overgrown, which obstructed the driver's view of the crossing.