Plaintiff commenced this action against his employer Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA; 45 USC § 51) to recover damages for injuries sustained in July 1983. While mere injury to an employee is not in itself proof of PATH's negligence, it is clear that the standard of negligence under the FELA is substantially more liberal than that governing ordinary common-law negligence actions. In a FELA action, the "test...
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