{"id":2363,"date":"2011-07-15T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlawblog.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-07-15T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T23:37:00","slug":"chatsworth-metrolink-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2011\/07\/15\/chatsworth-metrolink-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatsworth Metrolink Collision Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 14, 2011, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman announced awards for all Plaintiffs from the $200 million dollar Chatsworth Metrolink Collision limited settlement fund. Aitken * Aitken * Cohn<\/a> attorneys Wylie A. Aitken, Esq<\/a>. and Michael A. Penn<\/a>, Esq represented 3 wrongful death plaintiffs involved in the litigation and served as board members of the Chatsworth Metrolink Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC). Wylie Aitken<\/a> and Michael Penn<\/a> also served on the PSC Legislative Subcommittee where they worked closely with bi-partisan members of the United States Congress in calling for Veolia Environment, the $50 billion French corporation responsible for the collision, to fully compensate the victims. Below are links to the official press release issued by the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, a letter signed by the bi-partisan Congressional delegation seeking full contribution for the victims and the Judge Lichtman’s written decision.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=1b13a598-5056-8059-767f-08be8ff01d8a<\/a><\/p>\n

Wylie A. Aitken, Esq<\/a>. and Michael A. Penn, Esq.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On July 14, 2011, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman announced awards for all Plaintiffs from the $200 million dollar Chatsworth Metrolink Collision limited settlement fund. Aitken * Aitken * Cohn attorneys Wylie A. Aitken, Esq. and Michael A. Penn, Esq represented 3 wrongful death plaintiffs involved in the litigation and served as… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-verdicts-settlements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}