A property and casualty insurance company should help pay for PCB contamination on track beds at Penn Station, Amtrak alleged in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
The railroad company brought the suit against American Premier Underwriters Inc., the successor of two companies that owned and operated Penn Station and its trains before 1976.
Amtrak claims that it has spent more than $30 million to clean up the polychlorinated biphenyls that had been discharged from transformers installed on trains from as early as the 1930s—long before it acquired Penn Station.
“Amtrak is not solely, or even predominantly, responsible for ...
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