A Missouri appellate court has upheld a $20 million verdict against Great Plains Trucking in a decision in which the judges took the company to task for its safety practices.
But the ruling drew a partial dissent from one judge over the exclusion of evidence about the marijuana habits of the motorist whose son was killed in 2019 when an 18-wheeler from Great Plains Trucking, based in Salina, Kansas, struck the car on Interstate 70.
Robert Schultz was the 19-year-old son of Carrie Schultz, who was...