Logistics Management, August 10, 2020 By John D. Schulz Settle, if possible. Don’t take shortcuts on safety.  Obviously, avoid truck accidents involving children by any means. And hope that somehow, some way, sensible tort reform is on its way into American courtrooms. Those are some of the suggestions from the American

A Trial Lawyer and a Conman Walk into a Burger King It reads like a sleazy, made-for-TV crime drama. One might mistake it for an episode of Better Call Saul:  Inside a New Orleans Burger King, a personal injury lawyer and a scam artist rendezvous to plot their next move. On

FleetOwner, June 29, 2020 By Cristina Commendatore In the last five or six years, trucking companies have watched their insurance rates climb, and many have found the insurance process daunting. Since 2018, trucking insurers have lost around $1.8 billion due to continued pressure from plaintiffs’ attorneys targeting the industry and

Commercial Carrier Journal, March 13, 2020 By Matt Cole This is the second of a two-part series on the growing trend of large court-ordered settlements in truck crash lawsuits. In post-crash litigation in which juries order trucking companies to pay multi-million-dollar settlements, who actually foots the bill? Mostly, it depends

Commercial Carrier Journal, March 12, 2020 By Matt Cole This is the first of a two-part series on the growing trend of large court-ordered settlements in truck crash lawsuits. Part 2, which will cover who pays for these settlements and how your fleet can protect itself against such verdicts. Courts