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Schneider is represented in her individual capacity and as personal representative of her late husband’s estate by Adam Levitt from the Chicago office of nationwide firm DiCello, Levitt & Gutzler and attorneys from the Philadelphia office of personal injury firm Saltz, Mongeluzzi & Bendesky. Named as defendants in the widow’s lawsuit are Amtrak and BNSF Railway Co., the North American railroad giant that owns, operates and maintains the tracks the Empire Builder was traveling on when it derailed. Dozens were reportedly injured and three were killed out of around 141 passengers and 14 crew members aboard the train.Īmong those killed were Zach Schneider, 28, who was in the viewing car at the time of the derailment, according to a complaint filed in a Chicago federal court by his wife, Rebecca Schneider, who sustained severe injuries when the sleeper car she was in flipped on its side during the accident. The two-locomotive Amtrak Empire Builder train derailed near the small town of Joplin, Montana, at a switch point on Saturday while on its usual westward route from Chicago to Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. CHICAGO (CN) - The widow of a man that was killed in an Amtrak train derailment in Montana over the weekend sued the federally subsidized passenger train corporation and another railroad company on Tuesday, seeking unspecified damages for their alleged role in her husband’s death.