Automobile Accidents

• Jury returns verdict for family in a 4-car collision

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A California state jury awarded $3.7 million in damages to a family that suffered injuries during a crash involving vehicles owned by Harris Ranch Beef Co. and FedEx Ground Package System Inc. The jury found that California-based Harris Ranch should pay 80% of the damages and that Pittsburgh-based FedEx Ground, the trucking division of shipping giant FedEx Corp., should pay 20%. A husband,...

• Transportation fatalities up in 2005

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Transportation fatalities in the United States increased last year, according to preliminary figures released last month by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Deaths from transportation accidents in the United States in 2005 totaled 45,636, up from 45,092 in 2004. Based on our firm's experience in litigation relating to highway crashes, I was not at all surprised to learn of the...