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PAGE v. NATIONAL RAILROAD

No. 01959, September Term, 2009.

28 A.3d 60 (2011)

200 Md. App. 463

Donzel M. PAGE v. NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

September 2, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall E. Appleton, Virginia Beach, VA & David M. Kopstein, Seabrook, MD (Kopstein & Perilman, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton PC, on the brief), for appellant.

Stephen B. Caplis (J. Chrispher Nosher, Justin M. Cuniff, Setliff, Turner & Holland, PC, on the brief), Baltimore, MD, for appellee.

Panel: HOLLANDER, ELLEN L., ZARNOCH and KEHOE, JJ.

KEHOE, J.

In the taxonomy of the law, the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. § 51, et seq., is a platypus. Intended to provide a remedy for injured railroad workers, the FELA "hovers ambivalently between workers' compensation law and the common law of negligence. It is neither, but it partakes of characteristics of both." CSX v. Miller, 159 Md.App. 123, 129, 858 A.2d 1025<...

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