$604 Million Nuclear Verdict: A Dallas County, Texas Jury Held a Freight Broker 68% Liable After a Sick Commercial Driver Was Never Pulled Off the Road, Killing Three and Injuring Two — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Freight-Corridor Wrongful Death Litigation, We Pursue Brokers Like C.H. Robinson and Carriers Like Lupus Superior, the Contractor Shells Behind the 80,000-Pound Rigs That Collide With Stopped Traffic, 49 CFR § 392.3 Prohibits Commercial Driving When Impaired by Illness Yet the Driver’s Report Went Unanswered, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Broker-to-Driver Communications Before the Overwrite, the Borrowed Servant Doctrine That Extends Liability From the Carrier to the Freight Broker, Texas Modified Comparative Negligence and Joint-and-Several Liability for Vicarious Employers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Matters — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Dallas County, Texas $604 Million Freight Broker Verdict: What It Means for Your Truck Crash Case If you are reading this page, you or someone you love has been hurt by a commercial truck — or you are grieving someone who did not come home — and you are trying to understand whether the company that arranged that freight movement can be held accountable. You heard about a Dallas County jury handing down a $604 million verdict against C.H. Robinson Worldwide, one of the largest freight brokers on earth, and you want to know: does that case mean anything for mine? We are going to answer that question directly. The short answer is yes — and the reason matters enormously. For decades, freight brokers have shielded themselves behind a simple argument: we do not employ the driver, we do not own the truck, we do not control the route, and therefore we are not responsible when the truck kills someone. A Dallas County jury just broke that shield in half. The jury found that C.H. Robinson was directly negligent in selecting a carrier that federal regulators had already flagged for unsafe driving, and then went further — finding that the…