In the current legal environment, it seems trucking companies are always losing court cases (they aren’t) and awards can be mind-numbingly large. Here’s a story of a big rig crash in which the driver and his employer have won down the line, including an appellate decision last week.
The defendant in the case is not a big trucking company. Rather it is Ace Hardware and its driver Robert Burton. The original crash occurred in 2012, when Svetlana Owens collided with and slid under a...