TPAs work with retailers, managing general agents, insurers, transportation defense attorneys, loss control specialists and telematics vendors to analyze risk and assist motor carriers with a variety of services, including driver selection/training, post-accident reconstruction, technical safety enhancements and much more. (Credit- WR7/Shutterstock)
Over the past seven years, the commercial trucking industry has faced a significant increase in nuclear verdicts — typically defined as jury awards that exceed $10 million.
Prior to 2013, it was extremely rare to see a verdict of that magnitude in the trucking industry unless the incident involved severe catastrophic injuries like paraplegia, severe burns or death, typically coupled with aggravating liability involving drug and/or alcohol use, or willful conduct of the operator or motor carrier.
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