Join the commuter rail pants party!
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm studying to be one. I'm halfway through my studies, and I can't think of a theory of tort law that entitles people to recover for the cost of replacing pants that rip on commuter railcar armrests:
Any way you cut it, $102,009.17 buys an awful lot of pants.
That is how much the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Railroad have paid over the last four years to customers who have torn clothing on the notoriously fabric-snagging armrests in a line of cars known as the M7.
The payments range from $1,405.61 for the new Paul Stuart suit that a man ripped on Metro-North last year, to $10 or $20 for minor damage fixed by a tailor.
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Metro-North (which has 336 M7 cars with about 14,600 armrests) has issued reimbursements on 452 claims of the total of 475 it has received since 2004, according to the railroad.
The Long Island (778 M7 cars, about 33,400 armrests), which was the first to put the cars into service, in late 2002, has made payments on 533 claims. That is only 40 percent of the 1,329 claims the Long Island line has received since 2003.
It might be instructive to see how much the MTA pays subway and bus riders for pants lost to gum and mysterious liquids.
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rj3 | 10:28 AM |
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I've snagged a pocket on an armrest before (not on Metro-North, but on NJ Transit, I think), and I just chalked it up to my own idiocy. You mean to say that NJT would have paid for my lapse into the clumse?
