---
title: "FELA Claims"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/civil-law-en/fela-claims-en"
field: "Civil Law"
description: "FELA claims in Georgia: the ordinary tort claim of an injured railway worker and compensation. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# FELA Claims

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/civil-law-en/fela-claims-en

## FELA in Georgia: What Exists and What Does Not

Clarity comes first: the American FELA — the special federal claim scheme created for railway workers — does not exist in Georgian law, and we have no direct analogue of it. The route applied in Georgia by a worker injured on the railway is the ordinary tort claim: a person who causes damage to another by an unlawful intentional or negligent act is obliged to compensate that damage. The special rules of occupational safety and labor law are defined by separate legislation and do not replace the civil claim. The ordinary tort framework is nonetheless fully adequate: it covers both compensation of damage in pecuniary and non-pecuniary form, and the employer's liability for the acts of its worker. The architecture of the claim is simply different: not the conditions of a special scheme, but the establishment of fault, causation and damage.

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### Does FELA apply in Georgia?

No — the special American scheme for railway workers does not exist in Georgian law; the route is the ordinary tort claim.

### Who is liable for workplace damage?

The employer — for damage caused by its worker's unlawful act in the performance of duties; no liability without fault.

### Can moral harm be claimed?

Yes — in cases of bodily injury or harm to health, as reasonable and fair compensation.

### When is the owner liable?

Where the operation is followed by death, mutilation, impairment of health or damage of a thing.

### Within what period should one apply to court?

Within three years from learning of the damage and the obliged person.