lawsuit News Updates

Per the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, frivolous lawsuits are estimated to cost the average U.S. household more than $4,000 per year, as measured in tort costs incurred by each state.

The ongoing legal battle between rival trucking technology vendors Samsara and Motive has entered a new phase as the former has filed additional litigation.

BALTIMORE — A group of Baltimore longshoremen has sued the owner and manager of the Dali, the containership that caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

Davis is still struggling to overcome the trauma he experienced, his attorneys said. He’s mourning the loss of his colleagues and processing the shock of his near-death experience.

The Texas Supreme Court has granted Werner Enterprises’ petition for review of a $100 million lower-court verdict involving a 2014 fatal crash that has lingered in Texas courts for years.

INDIANAPOLIS — When a trucking company anticipates or is involved in serious accident litigation, C-suite executives might want to remember one thing: Your company lives in a glass house.

INDIANAPOLIS — Litigation psychologist Bill Kanasky has words of advice for truckers and their attorneys facing potential nuclear verdicts: Get in the game early and get more aggressive.

PHOENIX — When a crash happens, it is a carrier’s policies, procedures and routines that could lead to a nuclear verdict.

A state judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in March erased a “clearly inappropriate” $25 million jury verdict for punitive damages in a 2019 truck-involved accident lawsuit.

Starting July 1, noneconomic damage awards in civil lawsuits in West Virginia involving personal injury or wrongful death claims against CMVs will be no higher than $5 million.