Amtrak engineers are government employees. Will the gay engineer be fired, or just reassigned to different duties?
Why would 200 million not be enough? Most is for the dead and critically injured. The light to moderately injured should get their medical expenses, time off work plus a little extra. Nothing more.
Part of what harms this economy is the greedy nature of our legal system.
Get your claim in early while there is still some money to be had.
Well that was a surprise. Who’da thought it would happen that fast? Lawyers on speed dial.
-Government limiting its own liability is nothing new, if gov desired, it would say, “no liability”.
The various states have jumped on that band wagon in recent years, limiting their liability in wrongful imprisonment cases and in 24 states, there’s no money awarded at all.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/us/table.wrongful.convictions/
If Congress capped awards to $200 million per accident, then legally how can they give out more. By law, that would be illegal.