As personal injury lawsuits continue to be filed against Amtrak in federal court, a request has been made to funnel all of the cases surrounding the Philadelphia derailment into a single multidistrict litigation.
The MDL petition was filed by plaintiffs jointly represented by the law firms of Kline & Specter and Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky. The petition called for all similar cases in different jurisdictions, including New York and New Jersey, to be transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where the bulk of the Amtrak derailment cases have already been filed.
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