$42 Million Underride Judgment

Sorry but they shouldn't recieve a dime.

 

How about people just stop crashing into trucks.

 

i think the roof is too high on my house. in the event i fall off, apparently i can sue the builder. oh look, time to clean the gutters again.

 

That would help but in this case the truck crashed into him. Strange the cited article mentions that the car 'careened off an embankment and ended up lodged underneath the side of a trailer' but fails to mention that the same truck 'drifted into his lane and forced him off the road. He ricocheted off the embankment, the concrete embankment and he became stuck underneath the semi-trailer...'

Nonetheless I don't get how the trailer manufacturer is liable when they manufacture trailers that are perfectly legal. If you want to change the law then fight to do so but punishing companies for following the rules makes no sense to me.

 

You could not armor a trailer deep and thick enough to caroom a crazy car off it. Bumper cars come to mind.

\I would like to think a proper jury will over throw this judgement. Im sorry they had a accident but whoopsie... not 42 million dollars worth.

 

Not good enough in the U.S. tort system. And hey... it's only faceless corporations being punished, right?

Costs and Compensation of the U.S. Tort System

This study looks at the total cost of torts paid in the U.S. tort system in 2016, using data on liability insurance premiums and estimates of the liability exposure of businesses and individuals that are uninsured or self-insured. The authors find that in 2016, the total costs and compensation in the system amounted to $429 billion.

That figure was equivalent to 2.3 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, or $3,329 dollars per household in America. But for that cost, Americans are getting a system that is extremely inefficient at delivering justice. Only 57 percent of the money spent in the tort system goes to plaintiff compensation, and that’s before contingency fees are subtracted.

ILR’s paper also illustrates that tort costs vary widely from state to state, ranging from just over $2,000 per household in the least expensive states like Maine and South Dakota, to over $6,000 in New York.

These findings provide a stark reminder of the deep structural flaws in America’s tort system, both at the national level and from state to state. This research and its reliable, transparent methodology should serve as a foundation for continued research into improving the performance of that system​

 

Just think of all the new truck train crashes low under rides would create.. I can think of dozens of places trucks would get hung backing down into docks .. also know of a few places with huge speed bumps .. if you raise the underguard it defeats the purpose unless it’s built like a tank

 

that would be too easy, and thus, no one to blame?

 

Very unfortunate accident. This society wants to always blame someone for their misfortune. Sometimes with just cause. Seems more so without just cause. Look at all the ridiculous warning labels nowdays. I say remove the labels and let the problem sort itself out.