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New Mexico Jury Awards $40 Million Verdict in Student Truck Driver Accident Although many of us don’t realize it, Interstate “Big Rig” trucking plays a vital part in our everyday lives. As an example, practically everything that you buy in your local supermarket was at some point transported by a commercial truck. The same holds true for the car you drove to the shopping center to buy your child’s back-to-school clothes: both your car and your child’s clothing were transported…

Big-Rig Cab Cameras, Brain Wave Monitoring, and Holding Trucking Companies Responsible Over 15 million semi-trucks lumber across U.S. roadways at this juncture in time. In the most recent year a full set of statistical data is available, over 4,100 people were killed in semi-truck accidents. 116,000 injury accidents occurred that year. A large majority of killed or injured men, women, and children were drivers of automobiles and passengers that were involved in collisions with massive semi-trucks. The typical person who…

Commercial Truck Driver Kills Seven Motorcyclists, Injures Three More A 23-year old man has been taken into custody and has been charged with seven counts of negligent homicide following a horrific accident involving this young man and 10 motorcyclists on a New Hampshire highway. The now-incarcerated man was driving a truck, with a trailer in tow, over the weekend of June 22 and 23, 2019. According to preliminary reports from investigators, the man diving the truck who is now facing…

By now, our readers are aware of the deadly April 26th commercial trucking accident in the Denver suburb of Lakewood that killed 4, injured 6, and destroyed 24 vehicles. Many readers will also be shocked to learn that the trucking company whose driver has been charged with four counts of vehicular homicide carried only $750, 000 in accident liability insurance, which is theminimum amount of such insurance that isrequired by federal law. In today’s post, the commercial trucking accident injury…

A Maine State Trooper was killed in the second “freak” accident in the past month. Read more from the commercial truck accident lawyers at The Doan Law Firm about how “freak” accidents happen and the legal implications that follow.