Amtrak will pay more than $10 million to one of the dozens of passengers injured in a train derailment near DuPont in 2017.
KING5 News reports Donnell Linton suffered serious injuries and trauma when the train he was on derailed and plunged onto Interstate 5, killing three people.
Linton is the fifth person to be awarded monetary damages in the crash.
In November, a jury awarded $4.5 million to a Maple Valley woman, and three other people were previously awarded nearly $17 million.
After those awards, the company rolled out its new policy to keep passengers from filing lawsuits.
Under Amtrak’s new Arbitration Agreement, passengers can no longer sue the corporation for things like personal injuries, physical impairments, wrongful death, and a whole list of other claims. Instead, those claims will be decided by a single arbitrator, rather than by a judge or jury.