Massachusetts LG blasts CSX

Last spring, Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray's office called Florida CFO Alex Sink to alert her to a train wreck in Canton where a CSX freight train lost control and hit a passenger car, injuring more than 100 people. Sink's office at the time was deciding whether to step in more forcefully to Florida's debate over the CSX-Central Florida Florida commuter rail deal, and the wreck helped galvanize opponents to giving the company a no-fault insurance policy on the rail line. Now Murray is calling CSX's insistence on the insurance protection in a similar commuter rail deal being negotiated with his state a "deal breaker." "CSX is demanding the no-fault provision remain in place, even after the state buys the line," he wrote in an op-ed published in the Worcestor Business Journal. "This is a deal-breaker, and frankly it undermines the foundation of our justice system, which is based on the idea that people and companies should be responsible for their own actions."