Ector County, Texas

Fatal Semi-Truck Wrongful Death at FM 307 and I-20 in Ector County, Texas — A Peterbilt Failed to Yield, Turning Left Into Steffan Robert Mick’s Chevrolet and Killing the 29-Year-Old Midland Husband and Father of Two — Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carrier and OPS Logistics LLC Under 49 CFR Parts 390-399, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, Pull the Driver Qualification File and Mandatory Post-Fatal Drug Testing Records, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, 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 Cases, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Stowers Exposure When the Insurer Refuses a Reasonable Pre-Trial Demand, ELD Data on an 8-Day On-Device Cycle and the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Jury Awards $49 Million to a Midland Family After a Semi-Truck Failed to Yield on FM 307 — Full Forensic Case Analysis If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on a West Texas road by a commercial truck, you already know the first thing that matters: the grief does not wait for the legal system to catch up. A 29-year-old husband and father of two from Midland left home on January 27, 2025, and did not come back. A 2016 Peterbilt with a towed trailer turned left across his path at the FM 307 and Interstate 20 interchange in Ector County, struck the driver’s side of his Chevrolet Suburban, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the truck failed to yield the right-of-way. A jury in Ector County’s 244th District Court sat through a three-day trial and returned a $49 million verdict — allocating 65% of the responsibility to the trucking company, OPS Logistics LLC, and 35% to the driver. That verdict is not a check. It is the beginning of a second fight — the collection fight — and it is the fight most families…

Fatal Semi-Truck Wrongful Death on FM 307 at I-20: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, Texas Oilfield-Trucking Deaths, We Pursue OPS Logistics LLC and the Permian Basin Carriers Behind Left-Turn Crosspath Collisions That Kill — the Peterbilt That Failed to Yield and Struck the Driver’s Side of Steffan Robert Mick’s Vehicle, We Extract the ELD Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and the Statute of Limitations Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, 49 CFR 390-399 and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Joint-and-Several Liability That Makes a Carrier Found Over 50% at Fault Answerable for the Full Judgment, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Jury Awards $49 Million in Fatal Semi-Truck Wrongful Death at FM 307 and I-20 If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in a commercial trucking crash on the Permian Basin’s highways, you already know the worst part. The phone call. The drive to the scene. The moment you understood that the person who left that morning is not coming back. What you may not know yet is that the fight over what happened — and what it is worth — started before the tow truck arrived, and the other side has been working it ever since. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death claims and 18-wheeler accident cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin corridor where oilfield logistics traffic saturates every rural highway and interchange. This page is our analysis of a specific Ector County verdict — a $49 million jury award that came out of the 244th District Court after a three-day trial — and a full explanation of how Texas law treats wrongful death in commercial trucking cases. It is written for one person: the family member who needs to understand what happened, what the law…