Contract, rule, regulation, or device exempting from liability; set-off
United States Code
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- 2026Byron Chemaly v. Eddie Lampert 11th Cir.
- 2026Kemper v. BNSF Railway Co. Kan. Ct. App.
- 2026Cramer v. Union Pacific RR. Co. Neb.
- 2025Whetzel v. Penn Central Corp. Del. Super. Ct.
- 2025Saunders v. Union Pac. R.R. Co. N.M. Ct. App.
- 2025Palmer v. Metro-North Railroad Company D. Conn.
- 2024Joseph Mattingly v. R.J. Corman R.R. Grp., LLC 6th Cir.
- 2023Gray v. BNSF Railway Company E.D. Ark.
- 2023Torres v. Metro-North Railroad Company S.D.N.Y.
- 2022June Fisher, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Alan Fisher v. BNSF Railway Company, (Individually and as Successor-In Interest to the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Company, Atchison and Quincy Railroad Company, Burlington Northern, Inc., and Burlington Northern Railroad Company) Tex. App.
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Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought. (Source: (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 5, 35 Stat. 66.))