I was pleased to see that Transportation Topics, a leading trucking industry publication, published my letter to the Editor in its April 23, 2012 edition on page 9. My letter on why plaintiff lawyer’s are having to pursue brokers for full restitution for their clients is as follows:
Broker Liability
This is in reference …
A trucking company’s driver manual tells its drivers all about the company’s safety policies and procedures. Generally, these manuals just recite Chapter 2 (the safety chapter) of the state’s CDL manual, and occasionally they includes material from a defensive driving course for truck Drivers such as the Smith System. Not a lot of difference in these manuals other than…
I have not been able to post recently as I am up to my eyeballs in litigation. I am shocked these days about how hard I have to fight to obtain information, even simple information, from trucking companies. This is information that just a few years ago was routinely provided to me without a fight.
Recently, in a pending case I have against…
Frivolous Defenses and Frivolous Lawsuits
Legislators have been attacking frivolous lawsuits for clogging the courthouse and unfairly costing our society billions of dollars. As a result almost every state, including the federal government, has passed sever penalties for the filing of frivolous lawsuits. The number of lawsuits has decreased, but the amount of litigation has increased!…
“Wrongful Death Distribution in Tennessee” “Tennessee Death Case” “Tennessee Truck Accident”…
Continue Reading WRONGFUL DEATH PROCEEDS IN TENNESSEE
Yes, that’s right, GOVERNOR HASLAM AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HELP TORT LAWYERS STAY IN BUSINESS! I was too hasty with my earlier post and didn’t think things though. It is the law of unintended consequences. Republican Governor Haslam, the Chamber of Commerce, and the state legislature have insured that people like me, trial lawyers, will thrive under the new law they just passed. That …
Governor Haslam has signed a law that states that non-economic damages should be capped in injury (tort) cases In Tennessee at $750,000 in most cases. Now in Tennessee juries are trusted to sentence a man to death, but apparently they are not trusted by the Governor to determine the proper amount of compensation for victims of someone else’s wrongdoing in an injury case.
The DOT is again proposing to allow Mexican trucks full access to the US under NAFTA. The proposed Pilot Program can be found here. This was a bad idea in 2007 when I originally blogged on the subject here, and remains a bad idea today for the reasons set forth below:
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I am pleased to report that my blog on trucking litigation has been selected as one of the Top 75 Truck Sites on the internet! The selection criteria states:
Truck Injury Lawyer Blog It’s all fun and games until you or your truck gets hurt, and if that’s the case then this is the guy you
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Governor Haslam has proposed that non-economic damages should be capped in injury (tort) cases. In Tennessee juries are trusted to sentence a man to death, but apparently the Governor does not trust a jury, in injury cases, to determine the proper amount of compensation for victims of someone else’s wrongdoing. Did you get that? Governor Haslam is protecting the wrongdoers at …