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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

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