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A California jury has ordered a negligent trucker and the company that employs her to pay a record $34.9 million verdict in connection with a 2010 semi-truck collision. In Hackett v. Silva Trucking, Inc., No. 2012-128931, a semi-truck operator, Elaine McDonold, apparently crossed the center line on Highway 12 near Isleton and struck a bus... read more

A federal court in New Mexico has stated a jury must decide whether the victim of an Albuquerque semi-truck accident should receive punitive damages from a negligent trucker. In Wood v. Bennett et al., Robin Wood was traveling east on Ouray Road when he collided with a tractor-trailer driven by Harry Bennett. Wood purportedly sustained... read more

A Florida jury has awarded a commercial truck accident victim approximately $7 million. In Erb v. Peninsula Logistics, Inc. et al., six Osceola County jurors found that a truck driver, Loran Leroy Smith Sr., and his employer, Peninsula Logistics, were 100 percent responsible for the injuries sustained by Kevin Erb in a 2012 Polk County... read more

A California jury has awarded a 13-year-old girl about $150 million in connection with a fatal semi-truck accident that killed her family in November 2009. The crash reportedly occurred in the early morning as the family of five headed north in a GMC Yukon on I-210 to visit relatives for the Thanksgiving holiday. Both of... read more

As a case recently filed in a Texas federal court demonstrates, a dangerous semi-truck accident can occur anywhere. In the lawsuit, a Louisiana woman claims she was seriously hurt when a negligent truck driver rear-ended her vehicle at a red traffic light. According to Jennifer Lee Banes, her sport utility vehicle was stopped behind another... read more