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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

One man died and six other people were hurt in a recent semi-truck accident. According to police, the 23-year-old driver of an 18-wheeler was headed west on Route 30 in Galloway Township, Pennsylvania when he failed to stop at a red light and struck three other vehicles. The force of the impact reportedly caused a... read more

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently called into question the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) oversight of interstate trucking and motor coach operations and recommended that the Department of Transportation perform an audit of the administration’s compliance process. According to the NTSB, a number of safety red flags were present and ignored by... read more

A bill that would require truckers to carry more liability insurance is currently being considered by Congress. The Safe Haul Act of 2013, H.R. 2730, would amend Title 49 of the United States Code to increase the minimum insurance levels that motor carriers must purchase by almost $4 million. The bill would also increase the... read more