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Dallas Prime Inc. Truck Crash: The $44.1 Million Verdict and What It Means for Families Hit by Big Rigs on I-35 You are reading this at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a phone in your hand and a hole in your family that no amount of money will ever fill. Someone you love is not coming home because a truck did not stop. The questions that keep you awake are the same ones every family in your position asks: Was this preventable? Did the company know? Does the law let us hold them accountable? And the one that scares you most: Am I already too late? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial trucking wrongful death cases in Texas. This page is not about our case. It is about a verdict a Dallas County jury returned in December 2025 — $44.1 million against New Prime Inc., one of the largest truckload carriers in North America — and what that verdict teaches every family who lost someone to a truck that should have stopped and didn’t. Everything here is the law, the science, and the machinery of these cases, written so you understand exactly what…