Another brokerage company has won a court battle holding that a 3PL is not liable for an accident that involved a carrier the company hired to move freight.
TQL, the logistics company in the case, was heard by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel unanimously held last week that TQL could not be held liable for a fatal accident on a Georgia road in 2020.
Katia Gauthier, the widow of Peter Gauthier who was killed in the accident, originally filed suit against the carrier, Hard to...
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