On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:30:57 +0100
"Peter Masson" wrote:
Boltar wrote
long before ambulance chasers came on the scene.

So if heavy rain causes an embankment to collapse onto the track just as
a train is coming around the corner which then derails then who is to
blame?

See, for example
http://www.raib.gov.uk/cms_resources...ls_of_Cruachan
pdf

In the general case, Network Rail didn't inspect the embankment or maintain
the drainage properly. There are cases where the cause was down to an

Looks to me like we've got to blame someone so make it the obvious target so
we can get some compensation.

It amazes me that those in the legal profession who are so sure that someone or
thing is always to blame and ergo by inference than something could have been
done to prevent it, don't put themselvesself forward as the people who can
prevent all these non-accidents happening. After all, if they're forseeable
as is claimed then surely being the geniuses they like to think they are,
they'd be able to forsee them and prevent them and earn a fortune in the
process?

B2003