Werner hit with $90 million dollar verdict

Assuming there profit margin stays the same it will take 6 years to recover to break even from this bs judgement.

 

If this had been a one horse trucking company involved, the lawyer wouldn't have even take the case. No big 60% payday for them.
Werner has said they will appeal. A couple of million will be offered as a settlement and if the plaintiff doesn't accept, the case will be tied up in court for a couple of decades. The attorneys of record will tire of the appeals and costs associated and tell the client to accept the offer on the table and take their 60%. The family will end up with squat.

 

I won’t. In a twisted backward way I think I can see the jury’s point about the 4000 new hires annually and 100% turnover and possibly even not rerouting him and no CB in the truck

 

They don’t get to decide. The court decides

 

And Don’t forget the only 12 people that matter

 

I get what you’re saying and I agree with you. This is similar the the McDonalds hot coffee case. McDonalds appealed the original payout and won a huge discount. The woman got a fraction of what she was awarded in the original trial. But what most people don’t know is the woman didn’t want to go to court. She asked McDonalds to pay her medical and a small settlement. McDonalds told her to pound salt and I wonder if the same thing happened here. Leaves a bad taste in the jurors mouth I’m sure.

You will note that Walmart didn’t go to court over the fatal rear ending. Werner was arrogant here

 

Of course it’s not the same case we were presented in the article. Did you read it? The whole crux of the plaintiffs case was that “Werner did not park as was required by every CDL holder in every state”

 

By the judgements verdict, none of us is permitted to ever drive in these conditions as well: mist, rain, dust, smoke, fog.

All trucking must stop for... mist. I really believe Texas didn’t think this one through.

 

I live in Omaha and no fan of Werner !
But I'm on the they're side in this rare instance .

 

We gonna have a driver shortage!