“The litigation environment for owners and operators of commercial or company vehicles has reached a tipping point that, unless addressed by the Texas Legislature, will result in growing small business failures, increased costs of doing business for the companies that survive, and increased costs for goods and services purchased by all Texans.” That doesn’t sound good.
Mar 09, 2021
A scene no trucking company large, medium or small wants to see involvement in, that s for sure. The DialVan small-mid-size fleet out of Laredo, Texas, has been the victim of civil litigation after such incidents, including this one, where it was clearly not at fault in the crash. That, said the company s safety director, is the biggest driver of insurance premium cost increases going.
A year ago I wrote about the case of independent owner-operators Rick and Lisa Weddle, whose insurer singled them out for their good-Samaritan actions after a crash that had happened ahead of them. After they pulled over in efforts to assist the injured – and, yes, worked the CB mightily (to some debated effect given the aftermath) in order to get the word out to those behind them that a crash had happened ahead and to slow down, their rig was plowed into by another, and Rick suffered an injury in that himself.
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