Today's Paper

Thanks Jahn. Can you blame CSX for being concerned about their liability.

The Massachusetts Senate weakened a proposed cap on legal damages paid for public transit accidents in its version of a transportation reform bill. Gov. Deval Patrick and a blue-ribbon panel had sought a $100,000 cap on damage awards, and the Senate agreed in a version of the bill it passed last week. Yet before the vote, the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee added a loophole that exempted cases involving “serious bodily injury or death.”