10 Ridiculous Lawsuits that Cost You Money

10 Ridiculous Lawsuits that Cost You Money

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Two teenagers sued publicly-funded Amtrak and Norfolk Southern Corp. after trespassing onto railroad property, climbing atop a rail car and being burned by a 12,500-volt electrical wire in Pennsylvania in August 2002. They claimed that the companies should have placed warning signs altering people of the dangerous wires. Four years later, they were awarded $24.2 million.

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