The trucking industry has seen a spike in nuclear verdict judgments across the economy.

MINNEAPOLIS — A winning strategy for a trucking company in any accident litigation often centers on gaining leverage on a plaintiff’s attorney early on, according to a trucking attorney.

MINNEAPOLIS — Failing to ensure that truck drivers meet regulatory and safety qualification requirements can haunt motor carriers in accident litigation, two transportation attorneys say.

Attorneys filed 80,000 to 100,000 new court cases that could seek damages from businesses a few days before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enacted a law to quash lawsuit abuse.

Florida Trucking Association and truckers are celebrating a law signed March 24 by Gov. Ron DeSantis that ends frivolous lawsuits filed by unscrupulous attorneys. 

Legislation that unanimously passed the Georgia Senate on March 30 will allow a defendant in civil litigation to apportion monetary damages to another party that shared fault in the case, but who was not named in the lawsuit.

Iowa's governor and a trucker turned state senator are waging a two-pronged legislative offensive targeting lawsuit abuse in traffic accidents with motor carriers.

Legal experts are warning that trucking companies and their technology providers could be unintentionally dragged into state and federal class-action civil lawsuits over compliance with the notification requirements of an Illinois biometric privacy law.

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton must face the criminal case against him in New York, after a federal judge denied his request to dismiss the indictment or change the venue.

While many factors have contributed to the rise of Nuclear Verdicts, the most prominent has been the spread of “reptile theory” as a strategy employed by the plaintiff’s bar.In this eBook, we discuss how:  Reptile theory was first used and later took the trucking industry by storm  Plaintiff’s attorneys use the strategy against fleets in court  Fleets can get ahead of reptile theory before it’s too late