
Many factors, including inherent jury bias, can drive jury awards higher in trucking litigation cases, a new ATRI study has found.
Read More →Financial speculators are investing money in “nuclear verdict” court cases in hopes of walking away with millions in settlement dollars — often in trucking. It’s ghoulish. It’s wrong. And it needs to be stopped.
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In Part 2 of HDT's in-depth look at the plague of nuclear verdicts devastating the North American trucking industry, defense attorney Jennifer Akre details how unscrupulous lawyers outrage juries to get big settlements — and what you can do to protect your fleet.
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Nuclear verdicts are on the rise. And they’re only getting worse. Why has trucking found itself in the crosshairs? And what can the industry do about it? Part one in a series.
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One of the nation’s strictest laws regulating the collection, storage and use of fingerprint scans and other biometric data, just got costlier for repeat violators. The ruling could be a win for truck drivers subject to unlawful scans.
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The American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carrier Conference has filed suit with the Federal Maritime Commission in an effort to protect truck drivers from being forced to use overpriced chassis that are not always up to safety standards.
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