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Woman Awarded $8M In Damages For Deadly Amtrak Cascades Derailment

(Portland, OR) -- A woman is receiving eight-million dollars in damages for injuries sustained during the 2017 deadly derailment of a Portland-bound Amtrak Cascades train in Washington state. A federal jury in Tacoma, Washington awarded Emily Torjusen two-point-five-million for past noneconomic compensatory damages and five-point-five-million for future noneconomic damages yesterday. Torjusen was among dozens of people who were injured when the train derailed during the inaugural run of the Point Defiance Bypass route from Seattle to Portland. Three people were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that inadequate planning, insufficient crew training, excessive speed and human error were to blame for the derailment.

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