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Jury awards former BNSF worker $3.7 million
GREG TUTTLE Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Monday, August 2, 2010 6:01 pm
A Sheridan, Wyo., man who worked for BNSF Railway for nearly 30 years has been awarded $3.7 million in damages by a Yellowstone County jury.
Edward Roger Jolley, 72, won the verdict late Friday afternoon after a week-long trial before Judge Susan Watters. Jolley’s attorney, Fred Bremseth, said Jolley suffers from chronic lung disease caused by years of inhaling diesel fumes, silicone dust and asbestos while working as a BNSF engineer.
“It’s a real tragic case,” said Bremseth, a Minnesota attorney who specializes in railroad injury cases. “He’s already suffered mightily.”
Jolley was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2006, Bremseth said, and is on oxygen to help him breathe. His condition is chronic and progressive and will result in his death, the attorney said.
Jolley began work with the railroad company in 1970 and retired in 1999 after working mostly as an engineer. He filed the lawsuit last year.
