Through Andrew Longstreth NEW YORK (Reuters) – For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in courtroom may rely mostly on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or federal legislation governs railroad security in the case. A Prepare dinner County, Illinois, jury in 2009, awarded more than $29.5 million to a Chicago lady injured in a 2005 commuter educate derailment. The investigation into the Metro-North derailment in the Bronx, which killed 4 and severely injured 11, has founded on the movements of the train’s engineer, William Rockefeller. A lawyer for Rockefeller was once now not instantly available for remark, and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board has said it has no longer reached a conclusion into the accident’s lead to and would proceed its work for weeks, if no longer months.