Attorneys representing a South Carolina couple that filed a truck accident lawsuit against a North Carolina fabric company say that they hope a recent settlement in the case will help in addressing the problem of distracted driving in the trucking industry. Unifi Inc. agreed to pay a $3.75 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by…
A truck accident lawsuit involving a fatal 2015 crash in Arkansas has been moved from state to federal court. Two drivers were killed in the 2015 accident, including Dennis Hyman, whose family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the trucking company and the driver of the truck involved in the collision.
Trucking companies and independent truck driving contractors have faced increased insurance premiums in recent years as a result of several verdicts in personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits filed in the wake of trucking accidents. Although the number of trucking accidents in the U.S. has fallen by about 20% in recent years, record verdicts in…
A Louisiana jury has awarded a $51.5 million verdict to a New Orleans woman who was severely injured in an accident involving a tractor trailer truck. Connie Jones Marable was severely injured in 2012 in a truck accident at a Lowe’s parking lot in New Orleans East.
Two women and an infant were killed in a trucking accident when the vehicle in which they were traveling was rear-ended by an 18-wheeler on a highway in Austin, Texas. The family of the victims has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and the trucking company who operated the vehicle.
Fatal accidents on Texas roads have spiked during the ongoing boom in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) according to a joint investigation by the Houston Chronicle and Houston Public Media News 88.7. Highway deaths have dropped steadily all across the United States for the last six decades. However, in Texas, the numbers of all motor vehicle fatalities…
Gerald Simoneau of Mobile, Alabama filed a lawsuit against UPS after he as seriously injured from being struck by a UPS delivery truck that had collided with another vehicle. A Mobile County jury has found the UPS delivery truck driver negligent and responsible for the crash and Simoneau’s injuries. The jury ordered UPS to pay $1 million in…
More than 40,000 people are injured each year as a result of accidents in roadway work zones. Someone in the United States is injured in a work zone crash about every thirteen minutes and someone is killed in a work zone about every ten hours.
Lorenzo Munoz and Roger Franceware were killed in a crash in 2010. They were traveling together in an 18-wheeler in Mitchell County, Texas, on Interstate 20 when the truck crashed into a concrete embankment and cement pillar and caught fire. Muñoz was driving at the time.
A collision in northern California between a FedEx truck and a bus killed ten people Thursday evening. According to witnesses, the FedEx truck crossed a median and slammed head-on into a bus carrying students and chaperones. The students from various Los Angeles-area schools were on a trip to visit Humboldt State University in Arcata. The…
Last month, Heckmann Water Resources, a company working in the Eagle Ford Shale, was ordered to pay $281 million by a Dimmit County, Texas jury in a wrongful death case in Carrizo Springs, Texas. The jury awarded the verdict to the family of Carlos Aguilar, who was killed in a trucking accident in May 2012…
A Los Angeles jury has awarded more than $150 million in damages to a 13-year-old girl who tragically watched her family burn to death in a fiery crash on a Southern California freeway. The girl was only 9 when she and her 11-year-old brother managed to escape from their family’s mangled SUV after it crashed…