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Earlier this week in Pennsylvania, a truck driver died after getting into a serious accident involving several other cars while trying to enter the highway. According to a report by a local news source, the truck was entering the highway shortly after 3:30 p.m. when it struck two other trucks as well as a car.... read more

Earlier this week in Phoenix, several gas cylinders fell off of a flatbed truck, leading to the death of a motorcyclist. According to a report by AZFamily.com, the improperly secured load fell off the truck shortly after 3 p.m. on January 20th. Once the tanks fell off the bed of the trailer, a Chevrolet Suburban... read more

A Texas jury has awarded the family of an oil worker who was killed by an allegedly improperly maintained tractor-trailer $281 million. In Estate of Carlos Aguilar v. Heckmann Water Resources et. al., the family of Army veteran Carlos Aguilar filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Heckmann Water Resources, Inc. and a big rig driver... read more

The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico has held that certain portions of expert testimony must be excluded in a lawsuit that was filed following a fatal semi-truck crash. In Tom v. SB, Inc., et. al, the estate of a man killed in a truck accident, Sam Tom, filed a lawsuit... read more

A New Mexico federal court has ordered a lawsuit stemming from a collision between two tractor trailers to trial. In Gleason v. Savine, a semi owned by FedEx Freight, Inc. and being operated by Alonzo Gleason struck the back of a big rig owned by Sparkling Snow, Inc. on Interstate 40 in Guadalupe County, New... read more