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Newsby StaffJune 16, 2021

Hub Adds Excess Liability Insurance to Protect Carriers

Hub International has launched an excess liability insurance designed to give truck carriers broad coverage and protect them from potential major losses from nuclear verdicts.

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Newsby StaffJune 4, 2021

Webinar to Explore Why and How to Build a Fleet Safety Culture

A new safety webinar series from the editors of Heavy Duty Trucking kicks off June 30 with a look how a strong safety culture can help fleets deal with industry issues such as high insurance costs and nuclear verdicts.

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Articlesby Deborah LockridgeMay 20, 2021

How a Trucking Company Fought Back a Nuclear Verdict

A crash so devastating it had John Vaccaro wondering if he even wanted to continue on with the family trucking business was a wake-up call to double down on safety.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeMay 11, 2021

Bluewire to Deploy Data in Defense of Trucking Industry

A new company plans to use data analysis to help fleets disarm nuclear verdicts before an accident even happens.

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SponsoredApril 29, 2021

Carriers Need to Get Better at Self Defense

The trucking industry is facing tectonic change to risk mitigation and its relationships with the insurance industry. Several factors are pushing up the cost of managing risk and defending accident claims. How the industry solves this problem isn't completely clear yet, but Brendan Dawson of the Trucking Defense Network has a few thoughts on the first steps we need to take.

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Newsby StaffMarch 15, 2021

Texas Bills Seek to Address Nuclear Verdicts in Trucking

Texas legislators are trying to pass new laws that they say would protect the trucking industry from “abusive commercial vehicle lawsuits,” but personal-injury lawyers are fighting it.

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SponsoredJanuary 11, 2021

What Can Fleets do About the High Cost of Insurance?

What some are calling an insurance crisis is driving up operating costs and forcing fleets to change driver hiring and training practices. Andrew Ladebauche and Brian Runnels, both of Reliance Partners, unpack the challenge and explain how fleets can minimize the financial hit at renewal time.

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All That's Truckingby Deborah LockridgeAugust 31, 2020

3 Things Trucking Fleets Should Know About Runaway Jury Verdicts

You've heard about the growth of "nuclear verdicts" in truck crash cases. But you might not know about these factors that are helping to drive those numbers up. Deborah Lockridge explores the topic in her All That's Trucking blog.

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Newsby StaffAugust 28, 2020

Record 'Nuclear Verdict' Thrown Out on Appeal

An appeals court has ordered a new trial in a 2018 “nuclear verdict” case that was believed to be the largest trucking verdict in the country’s history, saying the award was excessive.

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ArticlesJuly 10, 2020

Law Expert: Focus on Safety to Avert Nuclear Verdicts

Runaway nuclear verdicts are a reality now, but a leading transportation safety law expert believes fleets could avert mega awards by enforcing a strict safety protocol.

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