Widow of Man Stabbed to Death on Metro Line Wants Lawsuit Kept Alive

LOS ANGELES—The widow of a man stabbed to death in 2018 while riding a Metro train is asking a judge to keep her lawsuit alive and reject the transportation agency’s claim that it is “not the insurer of its passengers’ safety.” In court papers filed June 14 with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Jaskol, attorneys for Fanfan Jiang, the widow of the late Xuezhong Bao, state that there are triable issues in their client’s wrongful death/negligence suit. “This is not a case of additional security, which is addressed by much of the case law cited by [Metro],” Ms. Jiang’s lawyers contend in their pleadings. “This case is a matter of no security, despite the contractual obligations [Metro] undertook on its own to provide security on its line where the murder occurred.”...